Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Trivia Question Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 05:21:07 GMT References: <1990Sep17.214906.20076@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: mtoy@sgi.com's message of 17 Sep 90 21:49:06 GMT >>>>> On 17 Sep 90 21:49:06 GMT, mtoy@sgi.com (Michael Toy) said: Michael> Can you think of a C statement which a compiler accepts that has Michael> a really long string of C keywords, with no operators between them? Michael> The best I've come up with is these sets of sequences of six keywords: Michael> typedef const unsigned long int volatile GARK; Michael> static const unsigned long int volatile GARK; Michael> extern const unsigned long int volatile GARK; An if you work on MS-DOS world, you can throw in things like cdecl, pascal, interrupt etc. ... Michael> Michael Toy -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland