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Subject: C typedef names
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 17:03:46 EST
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From: powell (Mike Powell)
On page 206 of Kernighan & Ritchie is an example showing how typedef
identifiers may be redefined in nested blocks.  The example is:
	typedef float distance;
	...
	{
	    auto int distance;
Jeff Prisner, the guy who's doing our C compiler, tried it out.
The 4.1c BSD C compiler calls this an "illegal type combination".
The DEC VMS C compiler works according to the book.

Is there a consensus on what's right?  More generally, is there any
"official" addendum to K&R, or is it still the accepted definition.

					Michael L. Powell
					Jeff Prisner
					Western Research Lab
					Digital Equipment Corporation
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