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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: &&**
Message-ID: <7699:Sep623:01:1590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 23:01:15 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.091605.15732@irisa.fr>
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In article <1990Sep6.091605.15732@irisa.fr> ridoux@irisa.fr (Olivier Ridoux) writes:
  [ is &&&&&&******x portable? ]

No. Even if ******x has a meaning, its && does not.

  [ x is &*x, so x is &&&&&*****x by ``algebraic manipulation'' ]

No. You can reduce &*&*&*&*&*&*&*x to x, given x of a pointer type. But
you can't apply ``algebraic manipulation'' to meaningless expressions.

---Dan