Re: Warning on assigning a function-returning-a-pointer-to-arrays

spibou@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Keith Thompson wrote:
% cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
cdecl> explain int (*pfunc(void))[5]
declare pfunc as function (void) returning pointer to array 5 of int

In fact, I used cdecl myself to figure out how to declare a function
returning an array of int, the reverse of the above:

cdecl> declare p as function (void) returning pointer to array 5 of int
int (*p(void ))[5]

The reverse of what "above" ?

The cdecl "declare" command is the reverse (or inverse, if you prefer)
of the "explain" command.

And what do you mean "function
returning an array..." ? Functions in C don't return arrays.

You're right, of course; I meant "function returning a pointer to an
array", as I wrote in the cdecl "declare" command.

I actually thought I had found a bug in cdecl because it seemed just
too ugly to believe, but when I fed it to my compiler (with high
warning levels), it didn't complain.

I don't find it ugly at all.

Ok.

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