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From: torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI typedef rules
Keywords: typedef
Message-ID: <10975@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 15 Mar 91 07:24:32 GMT
References: <793@llnl.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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X-Local-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 23:24:32 PST

In article <793@llnl.LLNL.GOV> rjshaw@ramius.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw) writes:
>In regards to ANSI C, what (if anything) does the standard say about 
>an identifer that is in the scope of both a typedef and a variable 
>declaration by the same name?

A typedef makes a synonym for an existing type up until it is overriden
by a local (block scope) declaration for a variable; it is then hidden
(and therefore entirely unusable) until that block scope is ended.

Gcc 1.37.1 is doing exactly the right thing in your example.
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