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Article #3851Re: Parenthesized type name in parameter declaration
From: Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 19:55
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 19:55
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In article <41iitl$m9m@news0.rain.rg.net>, Paul Long <plong@perf.com> writes: |> What is meant by this passage in the Sematics section of 6.5.4.3? |> |> "In a parameter declaration, a single typedef name in parentheses is taken to |> be an abstract declarator that specifies a function with a single parameter, |> not as a redundant parentheses around the identifier for a declarator." |> |> From a literal reading, it sounds like it is describing the following |> situation, but I believe this is a syntax error, which precludes any semantic |> interpretation. |> |> typedef int x; |> foo((x)); |> |> If this is not an example of what is being described, please provide one. Refer TC1 for an update on this clause. The following example might be useful: typedef int x; int(y); int foo(int(x)); int foo(int y(x)); int bar(int x); Cheers Tanmoy -- tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov(128.165.23.46) DECNET: BETA::"tanmoy@lanl.gov"(1.218=1242) Tanmoy Bhattacharya O:T-8(MS B285)LANL,NM87544-0285,USA H:#3,802,9 St,NM87545 Others see <gopher://yaleinfo.yale.edu:7700/00/Internet-People/internet-mail>, <http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl>or<ftp://csd4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/ internetwork-mail-guide>. -- <http://nqcd.lanl.gov/people/tanmoy/tanmoy.html> fax: 1 (505) 665 3003 voice: 1 (505) 665 4733 [ Home: 1 (505) 662 5596 ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!qcd.lanl.gov!tanmoy From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Parenthesized type name in parameter declaration Date: 24 Aug 1995 19:55:01 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <41ilel$kn1@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <41iitl$m9m@news0.rain.rg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qcd.lanl.gov