c/5219: Wishlist : scope of typedef doesnt include typedef itself

[neil@gcc.gnu.org]

Synopsis: Wishlist : scope of typedef doesnt include typedef itself

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: neil
State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 30 01:35:14 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    Structure tags give the desired functionality.
    
    The problem with your idea is that the compiler doesn't know
    what a treenode is until it has parsed the whole lot.  In particular, it doesn't know it's a type, or if it was
    a mis-typed "unsigned" etc.  This makes the
    parser far more complicated than it currently is,
    would introduce some bizarre messages I'm sure, and for
    little (IMO) gain.

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