X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Thu Oct 4 01:57:13 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct2.164709.23887 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>	struct foo x;
>>	struct foo { int i; };

>Betcha there isn't a compiler on Earth that will accept that today.
>Everyone I know read the size as being needed at the time of the declaration.

This is what I too would have expected.  However, gcc seems to accept it
quite happily.

-- Richard

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