Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!g.cs.cmu.edu!ckk From: ckk@g.cs.cmu.edu (Chris Koenigsberg) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: re: typedef scope mess Message-ID: <1003@g.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 19:52:45 EDT Article-I.D.: g.1003 Posted: Mon Jun 9 19:52:45 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 00:19:41 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 19 Keywords:not in MY K&R!! tps@sdchem said the following program should be legal as it was from "K&R p.206": typedef float distance; main() { auto int distance; /*###8 [cc] unknown size%%%*/ /*###8 [cc] cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!%%%*/ /*###8 [cc] syntax error%%%*/ /*###8 [cc] warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =%%%*/ distance = 1; printf( "distance = %d\n", distance ); }