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- The Clockwise/Spiral Rule is a technique for parsing any C declaration in your head.
- It involves three steps: start with the identifier, move clockwise (or spirally) through the declaration, and interpret each symbol as you encounter it.
- Examples illustrate how to parse declarations like arrays of pointers, function pointers, and combinations with const and volatile.
- The same rule applies to const and volatile qualifiers, treating them as part of the type.