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C++ compatibility

A struct or union tag has been defined within the definition of another struct or union.

C++ has different scope rules to C that may cause problems for nested tags. In C a nested tag can be accessed outside of the 'struct' or 'union' in which it is defined; but C++ treats 'struct' / 'union' types as scopes and requires scope resolution to access nested tags such as "outer_tag::inner_tag"

For example: 


/*PRQA S 553,3210,3447 ++*/

struct ST1
{
    int n;
    struct ST2
    {                                   /* Message 1314 */
        int i;
        int j;
    } b;
};

extern struct ST1 st1;
extern struct ST2 st2;

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1.2
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