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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is typedef char BUFFER[20] legal?
Keywords: typedef, legality, style
Message-ID: <1701@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:21:47 GMT
References: <1212@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1212@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) writes:
>Is the following statements legal in K&R C, and ANSI C?
>     typedef char BUFFER[20];
>     BUFFER sb;
>This seems to work on both the K&R compiler and the ANSI compiler at my work
>place, but is this going to break when the program is ported?

Looks good to me but you never know how bad some compilers can be.

>Can anyone also tell me what is the most common style convention for type
>names, I usually put them all in capitals.

You're not alone here.  We tend to use uppercase names for typedefs also.

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