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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Aztec 5.0
Message-ID: <5108@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 4 Feb 90 17:06:49 GMT
References: <6285@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <6285@cps3xx.UUCP> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu () writes:
> In an article Karl Lehenbauer [Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston]
> writes:
> > This will work with old-style K&R declarations as well.  Here is where I
> > found the only bug I've found so far -- it wrote into the prototype file
> > a parameter of "int foo" when the K&R-style argument was
> > "register char *foo".

> ANSI requires that taking of the address of 'register' is always an error,

That's fine, but "register char *foo;" is a legal declaration: a pointer
stored in a register. Whether having a "register" declaration on a parameter
is legal or not (I don't have my copy of the draft here, but I think it is)
is another matter: but converting the declaration ot "int" is still a bug.
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