[cfe-commits] r62192 - in /cfe/trunk: include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticKinds.def lib/Sema/SemaDecl.cpp

[Douglas Gregor]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Sebastian Redl wrote:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> Author: dgregor
>> Date: Tue Jan 13 17:10:51 2009
>> New Revision: 62192
>>
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=62192&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Permitting typedefs without a name is a Microsoft/GNU extension
>>
> You've really got to wonder what motivated such an extension in the
> first place. Let's say the code was accepted due to a compiler bug.

That's most likely, yeah. GCC doesn't diagnose it, EDG does.

> It
> is still completely useless! How can there be enough of such code to
> force a compatibility extension?


In this case, the code was something like:

   typedef enum { blah, blah2 };

So it does introduce blah and blah2 into scope, although of course you  
have to convert them to integers to make use of them.

	- Doug