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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Interaction between storage class and qualifiers
Message-ID: <14796@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Jan 91 09:34:25 GMT
References: <2760@charon.cwi.nl> <1991Jan8.011724.25209@jituha.enet.dec.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jan8.011724.25209@jituha.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
>OK, let's pretend that section 3.5 says "identifier" (fixed up somehow)
>instead of "declarator".

No, there is nothing wrong with the wording of 3.5 that I can see.
SGI apparently simply got the implementation wrong; there are numerous
problems in their ANSI C support as of Irix release 3.3.  We'll see if
it is fixed in their forthcoming new C implementation.