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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C inconsistency?
Message-ID: <16654@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 12:00:12 GMT
References: <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 21

In article <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>Is this an inconsistency ?:
>
1>	struct element {
2>	    char *key;
3>	    int level;
4>	    struct element **fpointer;
5>	}
6>	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 and gcc get gold stars; Microsoft C 5.1 gets a loud raspberry.
I have inserted numbers above.  Look very closely at line 5 and
decide what is missing.  Hint: it is a single character that is
generally found at the end of a statement or declaration.
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