With this change dissect can know the scope of SYM_STRUCT/UNION/ENUM, see the next patch. Note that MOD_TOPLEVEL can be set even if struct/union/enum type is private and bind_symbol() is not called. IIUC nobody else looks at SYM_STRUCT->ctype.modifiers, "make check" doesn't show any difference. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- parse.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/parse.c b/parse.c index a08165a..4492586 100644 --- a/parse.c +++ b/parse.c @@ -741,6 +741,8 @@ static struct token *struct_union_enum_specifier(enum type type, // symbol being redefined. sym = alloc_symbol(token->pos, type); bind_symbol(sym, token->ident, NS_STRUCT); + if (toplevel(sym->scope)) + sym->ctype.modifiers |= MOD_TOPLEVEL; } if (sym->type != type) error_die(token->pos, "invalid tag applied to %s", show_typename (sym)); @@ -772,6 +774,8 @@ static struct token *struct_union_enum_specifier(enum type type, } sym = alloc_symbol(token->pos, type); + if (toplevel(block_scope)) + sym->ctype.modifiers |= MOD_TOPLEVEL; token = parse(token->next, sym); ctx->ctype.base_type = sym; token = expect(token, '}', "at end of specifier"); -- 2.5.0