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Subject: Aliasing, etc. in C (available no. of registers)
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Date: Sun, 25-Jan-87 22:37:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 25 22:37:38 1987
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[ From sun!gorodish!guy ]
> From [?]
>>God forbid, but there is probably some C program out there that relies
>>on being able to:
>>	int a,b, *ptr;
>>
>>	ptr = &a;
>>	ptr++;
>>	/* ptr now points to b */
> 
>No program that relies on that is correct C, so no compiler is
>obliged to make them work.  In fact, the sooner such programs *are*
>prevented, the better off we'll all be.

Oh?  If this is aberrant coding, you might want to look at your
varargs.h file whose operation relies on these assumptions; and this is
in the ANSI proposal.

					- Monty

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