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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Pointers to Incomplete Types in Prototypes
Message-ID: <16138@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 13 May 91 07:35:18 GMT
References: <1991May10.011038.6781@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <16108@smoke.brl.mil> <1991May13.004120.26457@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1991May13.004120.26457@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@jit533.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
>If we allow the compiler to say that lots of things are declarations, when
>the standard does not explicitly prohibit them from being declarations, then
>the compiler could reject lots of programs that should be legal.

This seems to me totally irrelevant to the topic under discussion,
which I would summarize as "a declaration can specify things about
more than one identifier at a time".