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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Davidsen's device
Message-ID: <774@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 22:59:03 GMT
References: <1430@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <888@tub.UUCP>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <888@tub.UUCP>, net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
> In article <1430@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> > 	(*(asect < 1.0 ? hacs2 : hacs1)(asect);
> 
> You can even omit the * since it's superfluous.
> 
> Or is it?  Our K&R (the old edition) doesn't seem to say anything about
> this, but "gnucc -pedantic -ansi" doesn't complain about the following
> program (a good heuristic for checking whether it's valid C):

dpANS C allows the star to be omitted, K&R C requires it.
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