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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type checking for typedef's (new feature)
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 19:44:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 19:44:49 1986
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> What I would like is for typedef names to be considered by the compiler as 
> DIFFERENT from the underlying types....
> Is it reasonable? Is it hard to implement? Comments?...

Not unreasonable.  Not too hard to implement.  Not C, either.  Too many
existing programs would break.  Typedef is often used to parameterize
machine-dependencies like integer sizes, where the "macro" interpretation
of typedef is necessary.  It's much too late to change this now.
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