At 10:48 PM 6/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:57:46AM -0400, James Grosbach wrote:
>> brace isn't necessary, though. And the ';' after the function body's
>> closing brace is a syntax error, albeit one that most compilers will
ignore.
>
>No, it's not a syntax error, it's a legal empty declaration.

Empty declarations are not legal according to the ANSI specification.
Section 3.5 says "A declaration shall declare at least a declarator, a tag,
or the members of an enumeration." An empty declaration does none of these.
The upcoming C9X (looking more like it'll be C0X...) standard maintains
this language. It's a common extension, however, and probably a good one. I
think that it's a fairly silly restriction on the part of the ANSI/ISO
committees, really.

        Jim


James Grosbach
Development Systems
Microchip Technology
james.grosbach@microchip.com