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

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: what is that cool program to pronounce a type declaration?
Date	2021-10-28 21:30 -0700
Organization	None to speak of
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Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@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/

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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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