savagem@software.mitel.com (Martin Savage) writes:

>Should this typedef be allowed?
>
>class x {
>  typedef x y; /* it was typedef x *y in the previous post; */
>};

Yes.

>g++ version 2 will take it, but not version 2.4 and 2.5.8.
>Is it a bug in those versions?

If 2.4 and 2.5.8 don't accept that, it's a bug.
The bug is not present in 2.6.0.

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