On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:53:50AM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote: > Yes, except C89 and C++ do not permit that, so gcc (also lint?) makes > complaints about it. It is not "reasonable" alas.
Nitpick: C++ and C99 do allow it, gcc does not complain (at least I couldn't get it to complain with any -std= and -Wall value I tried). We should fix lint. Martin