From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WEIRD GCC error
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 12:07:58 -0700
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Richard wrote:
> 
> This code is valid C++, but the problem is that gcc complains about it.
> 
> Does anyone know what's wrong?

It's not totally obvious why gcc is complaining about this to me, but
changing the declaration

    typedef struct { byte a; byte b; byte c; } Abc;

to the more reasonable

    struct Abc { byte a; byte b; byte c; };

eliminates the errors.

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