typedefs and prototypes

[Larry Miller]

In article <13709 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <12326 at oberon.USC.EDU> english at panarea.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>
>(Whether this means that
>
>	void foo(int i, char *i);
>
>is legal I do not know.)
>-- 
>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
>Domain:	chris at mimsy.umd.edu	Path:	uunet!mimsy!chris


Identifiers in prototypes have scope to the end of the declaration.
The above is not legal (though notice the ancient date on my copy of
the draft.  [Ref:  Draft standard, Nov., 1985 (!), Ss C.5.3.3]

	In a declaration that is not a function definition [i.e., a
	function prototype], any identifier declared in the list has
	function prototype scope, which extends to the end of the
	declaration...


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