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From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Date: Thu, 30-Mar-89 19:29:03 EST
Message-ID: <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C inconsistency?
Reply-To: sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy)

Is this an inconsistency ?:

	struct element {
	    char *key;
	    int level;
	    struct element **fpointer;
	}
	struct element *head[LEVELCAP];     /* array of pointers to struct */

Microsoft C 5.1 in MS-DOS compiles this alright, but neither cc nor gcc are
able to compile in UNIX 4.1 (or is it 4.2, I can't remember).

cc merely gives a "syntax error at or near" the line having the array
declaration.

gcc, however, complains that "two or more data types in declaration" exist (at
the line having the array declaration).

Any ideas why?  (I think I know why it doesn't work for cc, but I don't know
why for gcc).

--Raj

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