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Article #5357Re: Query about typedef type-checking
From: Larry Jones
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 22:32
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 22:32
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In article <74@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes: > Put simply, does the upcoming standard intend to enforce (or warn about) > mixing 'typedef'-ed types even if the fundamental items 'beneath' the typedefs > are the same? No, the draft maintains the K&R interpretation that typedef does not create a new type, merely a different way to specify an existing type. Warnings are not considered to be in the scope of a standard - if you'd like one, bother your compiler vendor enough to convince them to add it. ---- Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!scjones SDRC scjones@sdrc.uucp 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 "Save the Quayles" - Mark Russell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Query about typedef type-checking Keywords: ANSI, dpANS, warnings, types, checking Message-ID: <385@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 15 Sep 88 22:32:20 GMT References: <74@cybaswan.UUCP> Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati Lines: 16