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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Function declarations (was: MSC
Message-ID: <7859@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 11 Sep 88 20:22:13 GMT
References: <64@cybaswan.UUCP> <12400016@cpe>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <12400016@cpe>, tif@cpe.UUCP wrote:

| I can.  When you want to use a return value in more than one way.

| a() {
| 	int *malloc(), *x;
| 	x = malloc(sizeof(int));
| }
|
| b() {
| 	long *malloc(), *x;
| 	x = malloc(sizeof(long));
| }

This won't work right: it's not at all portable.  It assumes that
sizeof(int *) == sizeof(long*), an assumption which isn't always true.
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