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From: sandy@conexch.UUCP (Sandford Zelkovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: void *a
Summary: It's fine under Xenix386
Message-ID: <30246@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 22:05:16 GMT
References: <5197@rpi.edu>
Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA
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In article <5197@rpi.edu>, kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) writes:
> 
> OK.  Here is the program..
> struct	a	{
> 		void	*pt;
> 	} foo;
> main()
> {
> 	foo.pt = (void *) &foo;
> }
> The compiler complains that 'pt' is not defined, on ANY system I tried
> it except the SUN.  What's so special about suns and/or void *  ???





I compiled your example under Xenix386 without any complaints from the
compiler. 
 
Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz
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