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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Function declarations
Summary: still could be done with one pass compilation
Message-ID: <391@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 21:46:41 GMT
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In article <697@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>Well, consider the related question: who should have to deal with
>the pain caused by systems that make one pass compilation
>difficult: every user of ANSI C, or those people charged with the
>writing of a C compiler for those systems?

is this the claimed rational?  declaring functions as static local
to a referencing function _can_ be handled with single pass compilation.
the compiler may be easier to write than with that feature included,
but with it included, the compiler could still be single pass.
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