to describe this inverted child relationship: we consider the outermost
declarator's
.Va parent
-as the declaration's base type (found amongst the declaration specifiers, e.g.
-.Li int , const unsigned long ,
+as the declaration's base type (found amongst the declaration specifiers,
+.No e.g. Li int , const unsigned long ,
etc.)
.Pp
The five types of declarators, described below, are distinguished by the