+perform this rendering.
+The
+.Fa cdecl_declare
+function produces output in C declaration syntax, while the
+.Fa cdecl_explain
+function produces output in the English declaration syntax.
+.Pp
+Only one top-level full declarator is rendered by each call; that is, these
+functions do not traverse the
+.Fa decl
+linked list at the top level.
+The caller can traverse this list to render multiple declarators.
+In order to assist with generating C declaration syntax, as a special case,
+when calling
+.Fn cdecl_declare
+the
+.Va specifiers
+member of the