[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > I just downloaded cygwin 1.5.24-2 (just a couple of hours ago) and > compiled the following program with "gcc -ansi fred.c" > (NOTE the "-ansi" keyword): I have only the C99 standard in front of me, but its syntax should be the same as ANSI, which is: typedef-name: identifier and not, typedef-name: identifier1 identifier2... identifiern The compiler is looking for a semicolon after, "fred," and your example is lacking a semicolon after, "here," anyway. This is not the compiler's job - to demangle a possibly inconistent type statement. It's the job of the parser and is potentially expensive and invalid. IMHO, Robert -- Ctalk Home Page: http://ctalk-lang.sourceforge.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/