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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A few random type questions.
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Date: 31 Aug 88 19:34:38 GMT
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In article <1988Aug28.030747.19105@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <530@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> mills@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Mills) writes:
>>Also, is there any real reason for the 'auto' keyword?  Has anyone ever
>>used it for anything?
>
>It's not useful, but there is probably old code somewhere that declares
>some local int variables with "auto i;" instead of "int i;".  Sigh.

Sometimes I use auto for a local variable whose address I will be taking
later.  This is a hint that I can't make it register if optimization
fever strikes

-dB
"Ready when you are Raoul!"
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