powell@decwrl.UUCP (12/17/83)
From: powell (Mike Powell) On page 206 of Kernighan & Ritchie is an example showing how typedef identifiers may be redefined in nested blocks. The example is: typedef float distance; ... { auto int distance; Jeff Prisner, the guy who's doing our C compiler, tried it out. The 4.1c BSD C compiler calls this an "illegal type combination". The DEC VMS C compiler works according to the book. Is there a consensus on what's right? More generally, is there any "official" addendum to K&R, or is it still the accepted definition. Michael L. Powell Jeff Prisner Western Research Lab Digital Equipment Corporation {decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!{powell,prisner}