Type Names

Type names are used in some declarators in the following ways:

• In explicit conversions
  
  
• As arguments to the sizeof operator
  
  
• As arguments to the new operator
  
  
• In function prototypes
  
  
• In typedef statements

A type name consists of type specifiers, as described in Chapter 6, Declarations, and Abstract Declarators.

In the following example, the arguments to the function strcpy are supplied using their type names. In the case of the source argument, const char is the specifier and * is the abstract declarator:

static char *szBuf, *strcpy( char *dest, const char *source );

Syntax

type-name :

type-specifier-list abstract-declarator_opt

type-specifier-list :

type-specifier type-specifier-list_opt

abstract-declarator :

ptr-operator abstract-declarator_opt
abstract-declarator_opt ( argument-declaration-list ) cv-qualifier-list_opt
abstract-declarator_opt [ constant-expression_opt ]
( abstract-declarator )