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From: mikero@microsoft.UUCP (Michael ROBIN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type Qualifier [volatile]
Message-ID: <54963@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 21:34:41 GMT
References: <4275@infmx.UUCP> <1990May22.124936.5727@aucs.uucp> <803@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Reply-To: mikero@microsoft.UUCP (Michael ROBIN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <803@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>In article <1990May22.124936.5727@aucs.uucp> 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels) writes:
>|In article <4275@infmx.UUCP> briand@infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
>|>    When would a programmer want to explicitly use the 
>|>		'auto' storage class? 
>|
>|I've often wondered that myself.  If you find out, let me know.
>

Gee, don't you guys know anything? You use "auto" to line up your declarations:

  static   int x;                    static   int x;
  register int y;   instead of       register int y; 
  auto     int z;                    int z;

:)