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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: scope of a structure tag
Keywords: scope structure tag
Message-ID: <9327@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Jan 89 18:23:09 GMT
References: <18915@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18915@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> holub@violet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>Does the scope of a structure tag extend from the point of declaration to
>the end of the current compound statement or whatever (as I suspect) or
>can you define substructures with identical tags but different fields? 

Structure tags have file, block, or (with ANSI C) prototype scope,
depending on where they occur.  The {} in a structure declaration
do not delimit a block.

>Is my assumption correct?

Yes.