Complex C declaration

Question

I was just going through some code on the Internet and found this:

float * (*(*foo())[SIZE][SIZE])()

How do I read this declaration? Is the

Answer 1

The best thing to do here is convert to a series of typedefs.

typedef float * fnReturningPointerToFloat();
typedef fnReturningPointerToFloat* fnArray[SIZE][SIZE];
fnArray* foo();