Query about typedef type-checking

[Larry Jones]

In article <74 at cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-sh at cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
> Put simply, does the upcoming standard intend to enforce (or warn about)
> mixing 'typedef'-ed types even if the fundamental items 'beneath' the typedefs
> are the same?

No, the draft maintains the K&R interpretation that typedef does not create a
new type, merely a different way to specify an existing type.  Warnings are
not considered to be in the scope of a standard - if you'd like one, bother
your compiler vendor enough to convince them to add it.

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