Modifying Typedefs (And Implementing Them)

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

In article <1990Sep14.213822.4828 at uunet!unhd> al at uunet!unhd (Anthony Lapadula) writes:
>While implementing a (hopefully soon-to-be-) ANSI-compliant compiler,
>we came across the following problem.  Given
[...]
>       unsigned INT foo1;
3.5.2 clearly states which type-specifier lists are allowed, and this is not
one of those.

>       extern   INT foo2;
This is a storage-class-specifier followed by a type-specifier which is ok
 for 3.5.

>       extern   INT (CHAR);
typedefs and variables share a common namespace to CHAR will hide the
external one.
[...]

>Doesn't the lexer have to know more?  In my third example, the
>lexer needs to know that CHAR is a candidate variable, even though it
>is currently a typedef-name.  How is this implemented?
I found it necessary NOT to have the lexer make the decision for the same
reason.
>
>-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al at unh.edu) Lapadula

I am using the May/88 Draft.

Regards
	Eyal

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Regards
	Eyal