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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a function return value
Message-ID: <14604@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 28 Nov 90 22:23:57 GMT
References: <4253@oakhill.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4253@oakhill.UUCP> stevenw@oakhill.UUCP (Steven Weintraub) writes:
>This all breaks down to an argument of semantics in the standard.

This is an open issue that turned up during the closing moments of the
last X3J11 meeting.  I think the clear intent is that the return type
of the function is narrow, with widening occurring only when used in
an expression, but others may disagree.  This needs an interpretation
ruling.