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Subject: Re: reserved words or what?
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:16:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:16:00 1987
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schwartz@gondor.psu.edu.UUCP writes:
> given:

> 	main()
> 	{
> 		int a,b,signed;

> 		a = b = signed = 1;
> 	}

> is this legal?   PCC on a vax running 4.3BSD and a Sun running SunOS 3.2
> doesn't complain.  Neither does lint (at least on the sun), except to
> report that a,b, and signed are set but not used.  On the other hand
> GCC doesn't want to see a variable named signed.  Which compiler is
> broken?  

> Disclaimer:  I don't have a copy of the latest ANSI draft, or even an old
> copy of K&R at hand. 


> -- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu

According to dpANS, "signed" is a keyword, and therefore can't be used as
a variable name.  The answer to your question is that the Sun compiler
is "broken".


				Farrell T. Woods 

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