"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Can I declare a struct in a function's declaration section?
>
>> It works fine with Sun Studio 11.
>
> AFAICT it's required by the original K&R C book.

IIRC there's something odd about the scope of the declared struct label.

Something like it previously extended to the end of the file but post-ANSI was
limited to the scope it's declared in (including very limited scopes where it
would be useless such as in function parameters).


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  Gregory Stark
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• Re: Is this portable? at 2007-04-02 20:33:46 from Tom Lane

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• Re: Is this portable? at 2007-04-02 21:30:58 from Tom Lane

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