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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)
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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.
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