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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Aztec 5.0
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Date: 3 Feb 90 14:28:32 GMT
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In <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,
>even if the object is placed in addressable memory.  Older versions of
>Aztec C would ignore the 'register'.

Hmmm... where is the 'address of register' in that declaration? I see a char
(*foo), a pointer (foo), and foo is in a register.

I tend to have to struggle with C, but I thought I had that bit down pat. If
you are correct, then I will have to do some concept adjustments.

-larry

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