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The LDRA tool suite V 7.6.0 is able to detect violations of this recommendation.
Compass/ROSE could detect violations of this recommendation...typedefs are well represented in ROSE's AST. To detect violations, we first have to rigorously define what constitutes a 'too complicated type'. Most could concede that a pointer to a simple type is not too complicated, but a function type is. I think a reasonable definition of 'too complicated' would be any type that has two pointers, two arrays, one array + one pointer, or one function.
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