Re: Is this portable? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Is this portable?
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Msg-id 877isumrsb.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Is this portable?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Can I declare a struct in a function's declaration section?
>
>> It works fine with Sun Studio 11.
>
> AFAICT it's required by the original K&R C book.

IIRC there's something odd about the scope of the declared struct label.

Something like it previously extended to the end of the file but post-ANSI was
limited to the scope it's declared in (including very limited scopes where it
would be useless such as in function parameters).


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