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Article #2871Re: Pointers to Incomplete Types in Prototypes
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 23:58
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 23:58
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In article <1991May10.021509.9862@athena.mit.edu> scs@adam.mit.edu writes: >That's why I think that the one-line translation unit > struct bar *bp; >is conforming, and need elicit no diagnostic. Of course it is. Sheesh, you guys have gotten yourselves confused. >I admit that there may be some ambiguity here. X3J11 has already ruled that type information is not "exported" from an inner scope to an outer one. It's pretty clear that the type of a local variable has nothing to do with the type of a global one whose identifier is temporarily "hidden" by the one in the local scope.
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