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From: nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with Centipede
Message-ID: <6284@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 22:28:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.6284
Posted: Sat Jul 11 22:28:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 17:09:19 EDT
References: <4287@caip.rutgers.edu> <25245@ti-csl.CSNET>
Reply-To: nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <25245@ti-csl.CSNET> herman@ti-csl.CSNET (Herman Schuurman) writes:
>in article <4287@caip.rutgers.edu>, brisco@caip.rutgers.edu (Thomas Paul Brisco) says:
>> . . . . .  It is really not a wise idea
>> to take the address of a register (they typically live at address 1 or
>> thereabouts). . . . . . .
>According to K&R page 89:
>	"It is also illegal to take the address of a register variable." 

About this register variable stuff: At some point I probably made ch a
register variable (why not), not realizing that I was already using
the expression &ch somewhere. Since I was doing this on 4.xBsd Unix on
a Vax, the compiler didn't complain. I probably still wouldn't know
about it.  if people hadn't started trying it on other systems.
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				Nathan Glasser
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