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    >     Compilers are not allowed to accept this style of declaration without
    >     warning.
    >
    > Not allowed?  Nobody can stop us!

    What about "in C99" did you not understand?

The term "allow" gives the impression that standards can give us
orders that we have to obey.  In GNU, we often follow standards but we
never obey them.