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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: typedef/old-style argument conflict question
Keywords: old-style function header, typedef name as argument
Message-ID: <2324@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 7 Oct 89 13:20:52 GMT
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
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I have a program where, because of its development over the years,
the following pattern occurred:

    /* in an included header file */
    typedef char *str;

    /* elsewhere */
    void make_table(len, str)
        int len;
        char *str;

I first discovered this when GCC complained about a syntax error near "str".
I don't want to defend the practice of using typedef names as arguments; it
really wasn't intentional.  My question is simply whether this code is
legal in the current ANSI draft.