ANSI typedef rules

[Chris Torek]

In article <793 at llnl.LLNL.GOV> rjshaw at ramius.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw) writes:
>In regards to ANSI C, what (if anything) does the standard say about 
>an identifer that is in the scope of both a typedef and a variable 
>declaration by the same name?

A typedef makes a synonym for an existing type up until it is overriden
by a local (block scope) declaration for a variable; it is then hidden
(and therefore entirely unusable) until that block scope is ended.

Gcc 1.37.1 is doing exactly the right thing in your example.
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