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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <524@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 15:19:01 GMT
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From article <879@twwells.uucp>, by bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells):
> In article <9987@claris.com> krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
> : In fact, since a[i] = *(a+i), and (a+i)=(i+a), you can actually write i[a]
> : for a[i] and most compilers will take it!  (Every one I've tried has, anyway.)
> 
> Try Microsoft. I don't know if it is true of the latest version, but
> one of about two years ago wouldn't take it.

GreenHills (the compiler supplied with our machine) gets all bent out of
shape about it too. Makes it a bear to compile obfuscated C programs, but
not much of a handicap otherwise :-)
It does get *(a + i) right though .....
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