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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C inconsistency?
Message-ID: <14@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 13:49:13 GMT
References: <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: ftw@quasar.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
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In article <1989Mar30.192903.28426@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>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).

Indeed, you're missing a semi-colon.  There are two ways you could declare
your array of pointers.  The first is to correct your declaration by
inserting a semi-colon after the closing brace in your structure template.
Another is to leave out the semi-colon, as you've done, and also remove
the ``struct element'' on the last line.  To wit:

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

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