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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: attention C++ Language Lawyers!
Keywords: typedef, bitfield
Message-ID: <26698DC3.9388@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 90 22:22:59 GMT
References: <157@logo.procase.UUCP>
Reply-To: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In article <157@logo.procase.UUCP> roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott) writes:
>Okay all you language lawyer types, here's a fun one for you.
>Which, if any, of the following are legal?  Which, if any, should be?
>Why?
>
>    typedef unsigned GlobalBit : 1;

This is illegal in ANSI-C and (by implication) also illegal in C++.

All of your subsequent uses of the typename GlobalBit are also illegal
because the typename itself was improperly declared.


// Ron Guilmette (rfg@ics.uci.edu)
// C++ Entomologist
// Motto:  If it sticks, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.