Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!pyramid!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Lattice C compiler bug Message-ID: <749@drivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 12:40:20 EST Article-I.D.: drivax.749 Posted: Fri Jan 9 12:40:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 01:40:28 EST References: <2330@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <864@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Lines: 12 In article <864@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) writes: > Doesn't the declaration "register char *pt;" mean "a pointer to a >register," in fact? Easy to see you're not a 'C' programmer. The above declaration means that 'pt' is a pointer to a character, and should be stored in a register if at all possible. The statement "char **cp = &pt;" WOULD be illegal... perhaps this is what you were thinking. -- ....!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!holloway "What do you mean, 'almost dead'?" "Well, when you stop breathing, and moving around, and seeing things... that kind of almost dead."