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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Primos portability report
Message-ID: <7291@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Feb 88 11:27:47 GMT
References: <24599@cca.CCA.COM> <7048@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7048@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>>FILE *ifptr = stdin;
>I've run into this problem before.  std(in,out) cannout be assigned to
>FILE * variables other than in main.

A more fundamental problem is that in some implementations stdin etc.
are not constant-expression macros, but more general rvalue macros,
so they cannot be used as static initializers.