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

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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).

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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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