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From: daniel@osf.org (Daniel Dardailler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: function variable
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Date: 19 Jul 90 14:42:30 GMT
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Reply-To: daniel@osf.org (Daniel Dardailler)
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I have a g++ problem:

  main()
  {
  int (*  foo) ();
  }
doesn't compile with:  `foo' undeclared (first use this function)

but:

  main()
  {
  static int (*  foo) ();
  }
and
  int (*  foo) ();
  main()
  {
  }

works fine.

Any idea? 

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