Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C inconsistency?
Message-ID: <1989Mar31.171714.25383@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 17:17:14 GMT

In article <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>	struct element {
>	    char *key;
>	    int level;
>	    struct element **fpointer;
>	}
>	struct element *head[LEVELCAP];     /* array of pointers to struct */

You forgot the ";" after the closing "}".  In code, such a semicolon is
never needed and sometimes will break things.  In declarations, the
semicolon is absolutely mandatory.  Any compiler that *accepts* the above
is either being very forgiving or (more likely) is broken.
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