On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The style(9) man page contains the statement > > Don't use the same name for a struct tag and a typedef, as this makes > the code unusable from C++. > > My question is how does this make the code unusable from C++?
espie@ added this a long time ago, but I can't think of a specific example either. This may be a reference to buggy compilers, as OpenBSD was using gcc 2.7 at the time. If that's the case, it can probably be retired.
