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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: question about pointers
Message-ID: <897@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 01:25:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.897
Posted: Tue Sep 22 01:25:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 06:10:00 EDT
References: <276@ndmath.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <276@ndmath.UUCP>, dean@ndmath.UUCP (Dean Alvis) writes:
> the new [ie, ANSI draft standard] syntax for pointer declarators
> allows declarators of the form

> 	'*' type_specifier_list declarator.

> [is type_specifier_list restricted?]  in particular, would the
> declaration

> 	extern * int ptr_to_int;

> be legal under dpANSI-C? my own opinion is that this would be
> illegal, since the declaration specifier "extern" would default to
> "extern int", leading to two actual types in the declaration.

By that logic,

extern int *foo;

is illegal because the leading extern defaults to extern int, resulting
in two actual types again.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)