C strongly typed?

[Erland Sommarskog]

Henry Spencer (henry at utzoo.uucp) writes:
>Modern
>C is a strongly-typed language by any reasonable definition, although
>there are still a lot of antique compilers around that don't fully
>enforce its rules.

C strongly typed? If I write something like: (I don't speak C
so the syntax is probably bogus.)

    typedef apple int;
    typedef orange int;
    apple a;
    orange b;
    ...
    a = b;

Will a "modern" compiler object?
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar at enea.se