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From: markro@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Function declarations (was: MSC v5.1 Bug???)
Summary: reference to draft standard
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Date: 24 Aug 88 17:54:46 GMT
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In article <356@sdrc.UUCP> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>NO!!!  Amazingly enough, MSC got this right - the code is wrong.

Thanks for the answer; here is (I believe) the appropriate section from the
May 88 draft standard (3.5.1, pg 56, lines 19-20):

  "The declaration of an identifier for a function that has block scope
   shall have no explicit storage-class specifier other than extern."

[ Amazingly? (:-) ]