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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: typedef gripe
Message-ID: <244@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 01:08:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 01:08:43 1984
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One can always (sigh) cheat and write

	typedef struct {
		int a[10];
	} jmp_buf;

There is an obvious problem with changing the language such that

	typedef int foo[10];

makes ``foo'' a type which is considered a unit (like structs and
unions and basic types), and that is that it would probably break
quite a bit of existing code.
-- 
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