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From: t-itoh@utsm.nm.fujitsu.co.jp (Tsutomu Itoh)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Structure tags
Message-ID: <4736@utsm.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>
Date: 7 Feb 91 03:21:42 GMT
Reply-To: t-itoh@utsm.nm.fujitsu.co.jp (Tsutomu Itoh)
Organization: Numazu factory, Fujitsu Limited.
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Could someone please clarify the correct implementation of structure
tags and incomplete types as in the following fragments, assume there
are no other declarations of struct foo in scope:-

1a.

struct foo {int i;};
struct foo;
struct foo bar;

1b.
struct foo;
struct foo {int i;};
struct foo bar;

Should the compiler object to 1a but not to 1b as implied in 3.5.2.3?
If so it seems many compilers allow both.

2a
int bar(struct foo);
struct foo {int i;};

2b
struct foo;
int bar(struct foo);
struct foo {int i;};

Is the empty structure declaration necessary?

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Thanks
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Paul Ashton
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