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From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: typedef laxity
Message-ID: <542@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 14:00:48 GMT
References: <1070@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
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In article <1070@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes:
>It seems to me someone should complain about this code:
>
>	typedef int TEMPERATURE;
>	typedef int PRESSURE;
>
>	TEMPERATURE tx, ty;
>	PRESSURE px, py;
>
>	ty = py;		/* type clash */
>
>But none of the compilers I've tested (pcc, VAX-11 C, Wang VS C, Turbo C)
>complain about it, and, even worse, _lint_ doesn't complain!


The compiler does not complain about this, because it is not really a type
clash.  Typedef simply creates synonyms for a type.  The compiler treats both
"new types" the same as int.

>Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.

Greg Pasquariello
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