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From: draves@harvard.ARPA (Richard Draves)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: typedef's & cc
Message-ID: <145@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 23:12:37 EST
Article-I.D.: harvard.145
Posted: Sun Nov 11 23:12:37 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 01:27:32 EST
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Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard
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Don't the normal scope rules hold for typedef?
The following program produced errors under 4.2BSD:

typedef int foo;

main()
{
	auto int foo;

	foo = 2;
}

"test.c", line 5: illegal type combination
"test.c", line 7: syntax error
"test.c", line 7: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =
"test.c", line 7: unknown size
"test.c", line 7: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!

Stylistic considerations aside, why isn't foo a variable inside main,
and a type outside?  And why can't cc recover from such simple errors?

Rich