WG14 Document: N1015
Date: 2003-09-01


Defect Report #29x

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Submitter: Andrew Josey via Fred Tydeman
Submission Date: 2003-08-15
Source: The Open Group
Reference Document: Open Group aardvark 117
Version: 1.0
Date: 2003-08-15
Subject: Function prototype with [restrict]

Summary

6.7.6 (direct-abstract-declarator) is inconsistent with 6.7.5 (direct-declarator) with respect to omitting an identifier from a declaration to form a type name.

Here is a specific example that shows the problem.

    int lio_listio(int, struct aiocb *restrict const[restrict]);

is invalid and appears to have to be done as:
    int lio_listio(int, struct aiocb *restrict const __FOO[restrict]);



6.7.6 Type names, paragraph 2 has:
In several contexts, it is necessary to specify a type. This is accomplished using a type name, which is syntactically a declaration for a function or an object of that type that omits the identifier.

So you would think that if

     struct aiocb *restrict const __FOO[restrict]

is a valid declaration of the object __FOO, then it should follow from the above statement that
     struct aiocb *restrict const [restrict]

must be a valid type name.

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