From: chris.dollin@hp.com   
      
   Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:   
      
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   > #defined names, and the parser adds all encountered typedef names. This   
   > procedure works fine, provided that typedefs always have global scope,   
   > as is required in C.   
      
   Not so far as I'm aware: I couldn't find such a restriction for C90,   
   and could find implications in the text that it would be allowed.   
   Experimentally, `gcc -ansi -pedantic` was quite happy with a typedef   
   inside `main`.   
      
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