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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: return(struct) implementation
Message-ID: <9087@alice.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 00:00:13 GMT
References: <4425@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <11977@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1989Mar18.144546.10605@ziebmef.uucp>
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> In article <4425@pt.cs.cmu.edu> marcoz@MARCOZ.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU (Marco Zagha) writes:

> Some broken implementations use a static area in the callee and just return
> its address.  This mechanism is not reentrant, is forbidden by the pANS, and
> will be considered no further in this article.

I can't find the place in my draft ANSI C spec that prohibits this.
Can you enlighten me?
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com