GCC rejecting (I think) valid code

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Sam Lauber" <sam124@operamail.com> writes:

| I compile this pair of declarations with GCC (which would 
| probably be found in a stdint.h):
| 
| typedef short int16_t;
| typedef unsigned int16_t uint16_t;

I don't have the C90 standard text, but I can say that the above is
invalid in C++ (which is based on C90).

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                                                       Gabriel Dos Reis 
                                           gdr@integrable-solutions.net