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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary
Message-ID: <3479@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 90 15:57:13 GMT
References: <13996@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Oct2.164709.23887@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1990Oct2.164709.23887@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>	struct foo x;
>>	struct foo { int i; };

>Betcha there isn't a compiler on Earth that will accept that today.
>Everyone I know read the size as being needed at the time of the declaration.

This is what I too would have expected.  However, gcc seems to accept it
quite happily.

-- Richard

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