type *var -- vs. -- type* var

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <29048 at news.Think.COM>, barmar at think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> That's because "*" binds more tightly than ",".  If you want to force
> a particular grouping, use parentheses:
> 	(int *) x, y, z

I like it.  I like it a lot.  But
	cat >zabbo.c <<end_of_file.
	(int *) x, y, z;
	main() { x = 0, y = 0, z = 0; exit(0); }
	end_of_file.
	gcc -ansi -pedantic zabbo.c
run on a Sun-3/50 under SunOS 4.0 using gcc version 1.35 starts out
	zabbo.c:1: parse error before `int'
Are you _sure_ this is legal?