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From: pardo@JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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Subject: A question about warnings
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Date: 25 Apr 89 14:26:39 GMT
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In `fu.h', I have a function definition for a function that takes a
struct pointer.  The struct pointer is not known in all clients of
`fu.h'.  The struct pointer is used as an abstract data type.  I get a
warning message.

	    extern void
	f (struct rtl_t const *rtl);

	`fu.h':49: warning: `struct rtl_t' declared inside parameter list

Now the question: why is this a warning?  I could instead declare the
struct to be an explicitly `empty' type, but that seems to me to be no
more useful and it, too, will generate a warning message.

	;-D on  ( Curious in Seattle )  Pardo