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Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration?

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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Friday, October 29, 2021 at 11:46:09 AM UTC-3, Meredith Montgomery wrote:
>>> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.T...@gmail.com> writes: 
>>> 
>>> > Meredith Montgomery <mmont...@levado.to> writes: 
>>> >> I once used a very cool program that would parse a type declaration and 
>>> >> spell it out in English. For example, given 
>>> >> 
>>> >> int* x 
>>> >> 
>>> >> it would say something like 
>>> >> 
>>> >> x is a pointer to an int. 
>>> >> 
>>> >> I can't find the name of such program, so I can't install it again. 
>>> >> I'm sure you know which one it is. Can you jog my memory? Thank 
>>> >> you! 
>>> > 
>>> > cdecl, also available via a web interface at https://cdecl.org/
>>> Oh, of course it had to have gone to the web. Thanks very much, Keith.
>>
>> A simplified version can be found at the book "C Programming Language"
>
> In case it wasn't clear, cdecl can still be installed as a program to be
> run locally; the web site hasn't replaced it.  On Ubuntu and other
> Debian derivatives, `apt-get install cdecl`.  Or you can build it from
> source: https://github.com/ridiculousfish/cdecl-blocks (there are
> probably other versions out there).

That was clear.  I already have it ready to run from my shell.  Thanks!

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what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 01:05 -0300
  Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-28 21:30 -0700
    Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 11:44 -0300
      Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 11:49 -0700
        Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 12:14 -0700
          Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 16:56 -0300
        Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 16:55 -0300

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