I've never seen anything that complex in my experience, and it would be considered bad code pretty much everywhere. Rule #1 of programming is to make code easy

I've never seen anything that complex in my experience, and it would be considered bad code pretty much everywhere. Rule #1 of programming is to make code easy to understand and self-documenting. This should be a sequence of typedefs with self-explanatory names followed by a function call taking one pointer or type and returning another.