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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: typedefs
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:13:13 +0200
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On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> I noticed that the following line of code
>   typedef asdf long;
> causes a compiler error in gcc.  I checked the documentation and sure

Of course it's an error.  You should have said this:

    typedef long asdf;

> enough, "typedef" means something completely different in gcc than in
> standard C compilers.  Is there a way to let typedef do the standard
> thing?

You've read it wrong, `typedef' in gcc does the same that it does in any
other compiler.  `typedef' is an ANSI-standard feature and gcc is
ANSI-compliant compiler.