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Re: Variable declaration interpreted as function?

To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: Variable declaration interpreted as function?
From: Lars Albertsson <lalle at sics dot se>
Date: 24 May 2000 10:40:34 +0200
Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <u6z4s7psn7l.fsf@saruman.sics.se> <oritw5krar.fsf@tamanduatei.dcc.unicamp.br>


> > Gcc 2.95.2 gives a more comprehensive error message, perhaps
> > indicating that the declaration of c is interpreted as a function
> > declaration.
> 
> Yep.  And it should be.  That's what the Standard says.

I see. Thanks for the correction. I must say the old error message
gave a better clue to what was going on, though. Perhaps there could
be a flag enabling more verbose error messages, in case the programmer
is confused by the output. It happens quite often.

/Lalle

References:
- Variable declaration interpreted as function?
  - From: Lars Albertsson
- Re: Variable declaration interpreted as function?
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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