Another question on X3J11 proposal

[Michael Meissner]

In article <362 at danews.ATT.COM> lvc at danews.ATT.COM (Larry Cipriani) writes:
>
> Does the X3J11 proposal allow reuse of names in the following manner?
>
> main(argc, argv)
>	int argc;	/* first argc */
>	char *argc[];
> {
>	int argc;	/* second argc */
>
>	printf("argc = %d\n", argc);
> }
>
> 3 PDP 11/70 compilers I use give the message 'argc redeclared' and
> abort. A 3B5 and 3B2 compiler I use allow this.  I believe that the
> PDP compilers are correct and the 3b compilers are broken.

The current X3J11 proposal does not allow the redeclaration (because
parameters are considered to be in the same logical scope).
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