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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: declaring variable
Message-ID: <16827@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 21:27:50 GMT
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In article <16969@cup.portal.com> Kevin_P_McCarty@cup.portal.com writes:
[referring to the `declaration' sequence `double A, ...; WhatAmI, ...']
>tcc -c -A test1
>Turbo C  Version 2.0  Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Borland International
[errors]

I do not recall whether the original question referred specifically
to Turbo C version 2.0.  In any case, it is worth noting that in some
Classic C compilers, naming a variable outside a function without
giving a type declares that variable as an integer.  Thus:

	nwords;
	main()
	{
		...

produces the global integer variable `nwords'.

This was not legal in the dpANS when last I checked (which was before
it became a pANS).
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