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From: ccplumb@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.162241.15245@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 90 16:22:41 GMT
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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; };
>>	/* the above is strictly conforming; incomplete-type objects can
>>	   be defined, so long as by the end of the translation unit the
>>	   type becomes complete so that storage can then be allocated */

> 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.

Taken.  $5.00?  Gcc 1.37.1 (VAX):

#include <stdio.h>
struct foo x;

struct foo {
	int i;
};

int main()
{
	x.i = 5;
	printf("++x.i = %d\n", ++x.i);
	return 0;
}

when run through gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall produces a complaint about our
non-ANSI header files (printf returns an int, therefore it isn't defined),
and produces the expected output.
-- 
	-Colin