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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by dnautics on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @10:02PM (#22681327)
The fact that it's wrong if you try to generalize it beyond the examples given?
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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by saagarjha on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @11:53PM (#22681807)
Does it? Here's one that I grabbed from cdecl.org:

  char * const (*(* const bar)[5])(int )
And its translation:

  declare bar as const pointer to array 5 of pointer to function (int) returning const pointer to char
This seems like what I'd get from the spiral technique.
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