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From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Question about Declaration Specifiers
Message-ID: <750@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:14:35 GMT
Reply-To: chittamu@umvlsi (Satish Kumar .C)
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Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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The grammar in K & R 2nd edition gives the rule for Declaration
Specifiers as follows.

Declaration_Specifiers : Storage_Class_Specifier
			| Type_Specifier
			| Type_Qualifier
			| Storage_Class_Specifier Declaration_Specifiers
			| Type_Specifier Declaration_Specifiers
			| Type_Qualifier Declaration_Specifiers
			;

Obviously this means we can have declarations of the sort

register const int
const register int
int register const

etc.

I was always under the impression that the rule had to be

Declaration_Specifiers : Type_Qualifier Storage_Class_Specifier Type_Specifier

Am I mistaken? Is my interpretation of K & R's grammar correct? Or is
there some other reason for it being that way? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
-- 
	-Satish.
	chittamu@cs.umass.edu
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