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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why does C allow structs to have a tag?
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Manfred <noname@add.invalid> writes:
[...]
> Yes, if you use gcc under Windows you are actually importing a chain
> of dependencies that you don't want to bother with - That's the reason
> I only use gcc on Linux.
[...]

Cygwin is one way to use gcc under Windows, but it's not the only one.
There are other implementations on Windows that include gcc but are not
connected to Cygwin.  See for example mingw-w64 (which seems to have
some relationship to Cygwin, but I'm not clear on the details).

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */