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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: noalias; K&R 2nd edition
Message-ID: <7536@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 24 Mar 88 19:05:34 GMT
References: <7712@apple.Apple.Com> <7485@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1988Mar22.234610.29290@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1988Mar22.234610.29290@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>Is that 2nd edition K&R actually *on the market*, with the noalias
>issue still leading to a prospect of significant change?

The book notes that it was based on a non-final draft of the standard,
and that some things may be different in the final standard.  With
"noalias" relegated to footnotes, it wouldn't be a big deal if
noalias vanished; it would just provide another item for recurring
trivia questions in this newsgroup.