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Subject: Re: g++ core dump from improper use of extern "C"
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Date: 9 Jan 90 12:23:36 GMT
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From: Tim Day <T.Day@uk.ac.ucl.cs>

Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi writes:
> using 'struct some *' before having seen 'struct some {...'
> is legal and without problem in both C and C++

Not quite.  You have to say
	struct frob;
before you can use pointers or references to frob.
Inserting this line at the start of your example code causes it compile
OK (on a Sun3).  The core dump instead of error message is still a bug though.

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