Semantics make a grammar ambiguous

In the following C fragment


typedef struct { int i; } str;


void func (void)
{
str *str;
}


I'm having difficulty parsing this with an LALR parser (generated from
a parser generator) because the second str should be an id but matches
a typedef definition so a typedef terminal is returned from the lexer.
What is the traditional way to handle this ambiguity? Is this a good
case of why most production compilers are recursive decent?


Thanks!
Bill

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