In article <3s2obm$4r8@hustle.rahul.net>,
Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@rahul.net> wrote:
>I have been led to believe that the following valid C code gets bogus
>errors when compiled (perhaps with strict ANSI options) with various
>C compilers from various big-name vendors.
>
>If you have a compiler that can't compile this, please let me know via reply
>E-mail.  Thanks.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>void foobar ()
>{
>    extern int thing;
>}
>
>typedef float thing;
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Given all of the mail messages that I have received telling me about
C compilers which mishandle this code, I perhaps should have instead
asked for reports of compilers which handle this valid ISO C code
_correctly_.

Do any C++ compilers mishandle this?  (I'm figuring that most C++ compilers
will do the Right Thing with this code, since C++ implementors are, in
general, forced to think a lot harder about scoping issues.  Linkage issues
might still trip them up however.)
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