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From: john@stat.tamu.edu (John S. Price)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type Qualifier [volatile]
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Date: 31 May 90 05:46:03 GMT
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In article <3115@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <4275@infmx.UUCP> briand@infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
>I have been waiting for the people who were _there_ to answer, but so far
>no-one has.  The answer is HISTORY.  C had 'storage' qualifiers BEFORE it
>had types.  (Take a look at 'bc' some time.)  (At that time, it did not
 
I think I stated this from the beginning...  I guess everyone ignored
it.  Oh well...

Yes, the use of auto was inherited from earlier C implementations, and
from B, as the previous poster stated.



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