From: Richard <budha AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: WEIRD GCC error
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 12:57:51 -0700
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Thanks for the answer. I also found that changing the declaration
  typedef struct { byte a; byte b; byte c; } Abc;
to 
  class Abc { public: byte a; byte b; byte c; };
also eliminates the errors.

Richard.


Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> Richard wrote:
> >
> > This code is valid C++, but the problem is that gcc complains about it.
> >
> > Does anyone know what's wrong?
> 
> It's not totally obvious why gcc is complaining about this to me, but
> changing the declaration
> 
>     typedef struct { byte a; byte b; byte c; } Abc;
> 
> to the more reasonable
> 
>     struct Abc { byte a; byte b; byte c; };
> 
> eliminates the errors.
> 
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