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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable uses of jmpbuf's
Message-ID: <8678@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Oct 88 20:26:50 GMT
References: <4700022@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <Oct.12.10.45.20.1988.17816@ron.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <Oct.12.10.45.20.1988.17816@ron.rutgers.edu> ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>An extra ampersand doesn't hurt an array definition.

I don't know how one would use an ampersand on an array definition,
but assuming Ron means that (if "a" is of array type) "a" and "&a"
are equivalent, that was only true for certain broken C implementations.
"&a" used to be illegal.  In ANSI C it has a meaning, but not the same
as "a" (different type, for one thing).