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From: kvm@basser.SUN (Karlos Mauvtaque)
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Subject: Re:  is "extern" ambiguous
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 00:15:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 00:15:38 1984
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<reschs refreshes>

>     IN EITHER CASE I CONCLUDE AND PROPOSE THAT THE CONSTRUCT IS LEGAL C,
>   since at least one standard-conforming C compiler allows it.

So we take all of the bugs in PCC to be legal C?

Try this:

main()
{
	int	(*f)();

	(*f)();
	(**f)();
	f();
	(******f)();
}

What piffle.