Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:20:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4F9878AA.69F1@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:20:26 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Function Parameter-List with Identifiers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.222.13 X-Trace: sv3-Gt4MV6ioUuwRfXHDRb9FSa4ccMabkf0f9r+52J/L+PCUjtna4Kcg+VAgQIoBO46D93iIL33o2kiGa3a!xYZmYuhSFFKOHhQyUn5qzQ+CX3N2u1dtdnrpNBD7NXG5aFokp0lH/wyLOy3kV63dpNP5vo9jFUXK!NGxXXWmpqw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1867 X-Received-Bytes: 2008 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:19929 Shao Miller wrote: > > Good day, respected regulars and other readers! > > Quick question: At file scope, suppose we have: > > extern void foo(int Bar); > void foo(int bar) { return; } > > (Please note the case.) I seem to recall some bit about the former > parameter identifiers being ignored, but can't seem to find that bit. > Does anyone recall if that's so? It's not an identifier-list, but a > parameter-list. > > Thank you for your time. n1570 6.2 Concepts 6.2.1 Scopes of identifiers 4 If the declarator or type specifier that declares the identifier appears within the list of parameter declarations in a function prototype (not part of a function definition), the identifier has function prototype scope, which terminates at the end of the function declarator. -- pete