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No IntelliSense error is shown for type redefinitions

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
c, vscode
Domain
compilers, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the IntelliSense diagnostics in VS Code with the attached clay.h file and the reported extension and VS Code versions. Determine why the type redefinitions are not surfaced as an error, then verify that the redefinition and related diagnostics appear correctly without introducing the reported additional errors.

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Description

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Type: Bug

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in clay.h??? There are also 78 more error messages like this there.

Extension version: 1.32.2
VS Code version: Code 1.118.1 (034f571df509819cc10b0c8129f66ef77a542f0e, 2026-04-29T17:36:44+03:00)
OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-110-generic
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TypeScript
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