In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:31 
+0100 (MET), "Stephen Henson via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

rt> I've analysed this further and the cause seems to be that it bcc 5.5
rt> complains about taking the address of a structure that doesn't have a
rt> complete definition.
rt> 
rt> For example the following wont compile:
rt> 
rt> typedef struct FOO_st FOO;
rt> 
rt> extern FOO bar;
rt> 
rt> FOO *pbar;
rt> 
rt> pbar = &bar;
rt> 
rt> but it has no problems on other compilers.

I believe this is a compiler bug, which should be reported back to
Borland (unless they have a newer version of bcc that works
correctly).

rt> If you add EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN in the BCC-32 entry in Configure as in the
rt> VC-WIN32 entry it seems to compile OK and passes all the tests.
rt> 
rt> I'll check in this fix soon.

Sounds reasonable.

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