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[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it's usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you're offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that's likely to be what happens in production code.

But the underlying data type is still T***.