Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!ark
From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: attention C++ Language Lawyers!
Keywords: typedef, bitfield
Message-ID: <10896@alice.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 03:28:05 GMT
References: <157@logo.procase.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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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 isn't legal C and shouldn't be legal C++.
That renders all the following examples illegal too.

Cfront naively accepts it; thanks for pointing it out.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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