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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: A question about warnings
Message-ID: <8764@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 89 22:55:32 GMT
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Sender: Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <8904251426.AA14100@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
>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

This seems to be an error in the GNU compiler.  Unless some silly
ANSI-ness caused this to happen, the usage you are describing is
valid, and sufficiently widely used that the compiler should not
complain about it.

Jon