ccall in a macro creates a local scope

[aviks]

julia> macro test(a)
          quote
              immutable $(esc((symbol(a))))
                  x::Int
              end
          end
       end
julia> 

julia> @test "a1"

julia> a1
a1 (constructor with 1 method)

julia> macro test(a)
          quote
              immutable $(esc((symbol(a))))
                  x::Int
              end
              ccall( (:clock, "libc"), Int32, ()) 
           end 
       end 

julia> @test "a2"
ERROR: error compiling anonymous: type definition not allowed inside a local scope

julia> 

Is this expected behaviour? Workaround is to wrap the ccall in an eval.

[JeffBezanson]

This is pretty much the same issue as #2586.

[aviks]

Ah, OK, thanks. Closing as a duplicate