C oddity -- language and/or compiler - (nf)

[utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl]

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ima!johnl    Jan 20 11:03:00 1983

What we have here is perfectly legal C.

	double	a;	/* Note the semi-colon! */
		b,
		c,
		d;

In external declarations, all of the specifiers are optional so that

	foo;

defines foo to be, by default, "extern int foo;".  I agree it's silly and
perhaps should be illegal (or at least provoke a complaint from lint) but
it's legit now.

John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl