Re: pointer to incomplete types

From: Mitchell (cheeHATESPAMliang_at_inaHATESPAMme.coHATESPAMm)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:10:22 +0800

On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:54:54 +0200, Michael Birkmose
<birkmose@cs.auc.dk> wrote:

>Hi everyone!,
>
>
>Are pointers to incomplete types allowed in ANSI C?
>
<snip>
>cdecl>
>declare function (pointer to array of int, pointer to int )returning void
>Warning: Unsupported in C -- 'Pointer to array of unspecified dimension'
> (maybe you mean "pointer to object")
>void f(int (*)[], int *)

That's odd. As Ben said, it is completely legal. "[]" is allowed in
function declarations too, as stated in K&R. I tend to prefer "int *"
in declarations as "[]" confuses me to the level of indirections
especially in crazy things like "float ***".

However... shouldn't "pointer to array of int" be written as "int []"
or its equivalent "int *"? Thus the declaration cdecl returned seems
wrong! What it returned seems to me like an array of pointers to int.

Someone familiar with cdecl comment please?

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