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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: RMS's reply to Doug Gwyn's reply to RMS's comments on ANSI C
Message-ID: <5558@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 17:45:56 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5558
Posted: Fri Jan 23 17:45:56 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Jan-87 01:40:42 EST
References: <2788@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU> <5556@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5556@brl-smoke.ARPA> I wrote:
>	extern int	foo;
>	static char	*bar = (char *)&foo;
>are impossible for some linkers.

Prosser actually had in mind something like:
	extern int	foo;
	static char	bar = (char)(long)&foo;
but it looks more useless than the other example.
Don't blame him for my changing the example!