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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: address of register variables
Message-ID: <696@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 8 Sep 89 21:17:01 GMT
References: <10809@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <9389@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
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In article <9389@cbnews.ATT.COM> mveao@cbnews.ATT.COM (eric.a.olson,54242,wi,1f018,508 374 5626) writes:
 >>>> What if x is in a register?
 >
 >Yeah.  What if?  I realize that registers might not have an
 >adress that can be taken, but why should that make taking its
 >address illegal rather than implementation-dependent?

Because the Language Reference specifically says it is illegal (even though it
is sensible on many architectures where registers map to memory locations).
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