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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: direct-declarator or direct-abstract-declarator?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 06:52:08 -0700
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Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> writes:

> [considering this code, excerpted from n2176, page 100:]
>
>    typedef signed int t;
>    t f(t (t));
>
> [About the declaration of f it is said:]

> a function f is declared with type
> "function returning signed int
>     with one unnamed parameter
>     with type pointer to function returning signed int
>         with one unnamed parameter with type signed int"
>
> [...]
>
> So how do I get to the typedef name 't' there towards the end
> with the grammar specified?


  t  f( t                                    ( t                      )  );
          ^                                 ^  ^                     ^ ^
          + direct-abstract-declarator{opt} +  + parameter-type-list + |
          |                                                            |
          |                                                            |
          +-------------  direct-abstract-declarator  -----------------+


Does this help clarify things?