From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   Chris Dollin wrote:   
      
   >>#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.   
      
   C99 states that type declarations are not allowed in C procedure   
   definitions.   
      
   > Experimentally, `gcc -ansi -pedantic` was quite happy with a typedef   
   > inside `main`.   
      
   The standard may differ between C and C++.   
   What gcc does, that's another story ;-)   
      
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