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From: jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable uses of jmpbuf's
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Date: 12 Oct 88 19:33:12 GMT
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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.

In dpANS C, yes (I think -- right?).  As for today's C implementations,
lots of pcc-based compilers gripe at you, but let you get away with
it; and Amdahl's UTS compiler at least used to treat it as a fatal
error.  In other words, your mileage may vary.

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