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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: won't compile
Message-ID: <6019@alice.uUCp>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 11:18:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.6019
Posted: Fri Sep  5 11:18:28 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Sep-86 22:09:53 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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> From: brian@uw-june (Brian Bershad)
> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science, Seattle
> Keywords: pointers, functions, won't compile
>
> The following won't compile:
> 
> --------------------------------
> typedef char * memory ;
>
> struct S	{
> 	memory (*A)(), memory (*B)();	// this is a syntax error
> };
> 
> ---
> but
> ---
>
> Struct S	{
> 	memory (*A)();
> 	memory (*B)();
> };
> 
> will.
> 
> I am still running 1.0 relE here... is this something that has been
> fixed?
> 
> The headache is because the former compiles using /bin/cc and
> I am trying to integrate old C code with some new C++ stuff
> (this is \supposed/ to work....)

Yes, both examples ought to work, but there is a bug in cfront.
Still not fixed in 1.1. Sorry.