(cdecl.org) intermediate qualified pointers create syntax errors?

[jason-s]

These work fine:

• cast foo into pointer to pointer to const int ↔ (const int **)foo
• cast foo into pointer to function (void) returning pointer to array 3 of int ↔ (int (*(*)(void ))[3])foo
• cast foo into const pointer to pointer to const int → (const int ** const )foo
• cast foo into pointer to const pointer to const int → (const int * const *)foo
• cast foo into pointer to function (void) returning const pointer to array 3 of int → (int (* const (*)(void ))[3])foo

These cause syntax errors (the inverse of the last three cases shown above):

• (const int * const *)foo
• (const int ** const )foo
• (int (* const (*)(void ))[3])foo

[jason-s]

These apply to the cdecl.org website. I am not sure about the cdecl program itself; I don't have lex and yacc installed so I can't easily try building from source.

Is there an appropriate issue tracker for the website? I got here from the "source code" link from cdecl.org. A few other things I've noticed:

• empty input causes the response Error error
• The "permalink" feature isn't available for input that produces a syntax error, which makes it harder to report potential bugs
• It would be really nice if there was a "swap" button that allowed you to take the output of cdecl and feed it back in as input (this would also make it easier when reporting bugs)

[ridiculousfish]

Hey jason-s! Thanks for filing this!

cdecl is like 35 year old software put up on a 10 year old website. There's surely plenty of holes!

Honestly I don't have much juice to work on it any more. If you think you'd like to contribute to the site, I can try to publish some of the sources - it's JQuery on the front end, with Python talking to a native executable (!) on Amazon Lambda. Let me know if that's something you're eager to take on :)