Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI grammar questions
Message-ID: <1988Nov17.180152.7988@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7938@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <179@twwells.uucp>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 18:01:52 GMT

In article <179@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>: So you can stack any number of storage_class_spec, type_spec, and type_qual
>: in front of your declaration, in any order?  Things like:
>:
>: void static fn();
>
>Right. This is intentional. Believe it or not, there are situations
>where this flexibility is useful.

However, beware:  the "future directions" section of the draft standard
explicitly flags putting the storage class in the middle as "obsolescent",
and implies that it is likely to be made illegal in future revisions.
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