added a note clarifying post_type() recursion

some ancient pre-K&R C allows a function to return an array
and the array brackets to be put after the arguments, such
that "int c()[]" means the same as "int[] c()"
see:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2399
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/classes.html#38703
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Joe Soroka 2011-03-08 01:33:17 -08:00
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@ -3111,6 +3111,9 @@ static void post_type(CType *type, AttributeDef *ad)
/* NOTE: const is ignored in returned type as it has a special
meaning in gcc / C++ */
type->t &= ~(VT_STORAGE | VT_CONSTANT);
/* some ancient pre-K&R C allows a function to return an array
and the array brackets to be put after the arguments, such
that "int c()[]" means the same as "int[] c()" */
post_type(type, ad);
/* we push a anonymous symbol which will contain the function prototype */
ad->func_args = arg_size;