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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <7081@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 14 Jan 88 10:10:07 GMT
References: <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA> <326@splut.UUCP> <327@splut.UUCP> <22773@hi.unm.edu> <3492@mtgzz.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3492@mtgzz.UUCP> dam@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRN40000[kvm]-d.a.morano) writes:
>As mentioned previously, the '**' can still be used for
>the power operator since the types of the operands can not be 'pointer to
>something'.

	int a, *b, c;

	c = a ** b;	/* means c = a * *b; */