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Common Object File Format (COFF)

Type entries and storage classes

``Type entries by storage class'' shows the type entries that are legal for each storage class.

Type entries by storage class

  d Entry Storage
_ typ Entry Class
Function? Array? Pointer? Basic Type  
C_AUTO no yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_EXT yes yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_STAT yes yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_REG no no yes Any except T_MOE
C_LABEL no no no T_NULL
C_MOS no yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_ARG yes no yes Any except T_MOE
C_STRTAG no no no T_STRUCT
C_MOU no yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_UNTAG no no no T_UNION
C_TPDEF no yes yes Any except T_MOE
C_ENTAG no no no T_ENUM
C_MOE no no no T_MOE
C_REGPARM no no yes Any except T_MOE
C_FIELD no no no T_ENUM, T_UCHAR, T_USHORT, T_UNIT, T_ULONG
C_BLOCK no no no T_NULL
C_FCN no no no T_NULL
C_EOS no no no T_NULL
C_FILE no no no T_NULL
C_ALIAS no no no T_STRUCT, T_UNION, T_ENUM
C_WEAKEXT no no no Any except T_MOE

Conditions for the d entries apply to d1 through d6, except that it is impossible to have two consecutive derived types of function.

Although function arguments can be declared as arrays, they are changed to pointers by default. Therefore, no function argument can have array as its first derived type.


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