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From: rburgess@milton.u.washington.edu (Rick Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: typedef struct a_name list_type[MAX];
Keywords: typedef struct arrays
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.201913.16800@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:19:13 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Can somebody tell me how to do the following (I get an error message):

#define MAX 500
struct a_name
{
	short x;
	time_t y;
	char z;
}	/* in other words, some miscellaneous, properly defined struct */

typedef struct a_name list_type[MAX];

I presume there is just some little syntax problem here, or that it just
cannot be done.  The VAX/VMS compiler I'm using bombs out saying:

%CC-W-TYPECONFLICT, "struct" conflicts with a previous data type in this
	declaration;  previous data type ignored.

Thanks ahead of time for any responses either via email, or posted.

rburgess@austen.u.washington.edu