On Wed, 30 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Apparently you get a warning only if the _first_ occurrence of a struct
> is declared inside a parameter list of a function.
This is normal C behaviour (and afaik, the "inside a parameter list" part
is actually just _modern_ C, not traditional
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:19:45PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > Actually, this is the only way to define circular referencing
> > structures.
>
> No, you have forward declarations for that. These are missing here.
I am no gcc expert, but might this be considred an implicit declaration?
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> [...]
> > > >
> > > > I think it could be tightened up even if it happens not to warn?
> > >
> > >
> > > struct a {
> > > struct not_yet_defined *start, *end;
> > > };
> > >
> >
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
[...]
> > >
> > > I think it could be tightened up even if it happens not to warn?
> >
> >
> > struct a {
> > struct not_yet_defined *start, *end;
> > };
> >
> > struct not_yet_defined {
> > void *foo;
> > };
> >
> > I
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was puzzled by this as well, as there were no compiler warnings...
>
> Apparently you get a warning only if the _first_ occurrence of a struct
> is declared inside a parameter list of a function.
The parameter list has its own scope.
Andreas.
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On Wed, 30 May 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Andrew Morton a �crit :
> > On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:16:31 +0200
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > --- a/include/asm-m68k/module.h
> > > +++ b/include/asm-m68k/module.h
> > > @@ -1,7 +1,38 @@
> > > #ifndef _ASM_M68K_MODULE_H
> > >
