declaring variable

[Chris Torek]

In article <16969 at cup.portal.com> Kevin_P_McCarty at cup.portal.com writes:
[referring to the `declaration' sequence `double A, ...; WhatAmI, ...']
>tcc -c -A test1
>Turbo C  Version 2.0  Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Borland International
[errors]

I do not recall whether the original question referred specifically
to Turbo C version 2.0.  In any case, it is worth noting that in some
Classic C compilers, naming a variable outside a function without
giving a type declares that variable as an integer.  Thus:

	nwords;
	main()
	{
		...

produces the global integer variable `nwords'.

This was not legal in the dpANS when last I checked (which was before
it became a pANS).
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