Re: Is this portable?

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is this portable?
Date: 2007-04-02 20:43:00
Message-ID: 877isumrsb.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"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).

--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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