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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: unofficial X3J11 meeting notes
Message-ID: <9770@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 87 19:03:24 GMT
References: <6829@brl-smoke.ARPA> <9753@mimsy.UUCP> <6830@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: ANSI C standard

>>In article <6829@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) wrote:
>>>A new keyword, "noalias", was added....

>In article <9753@mimsy.UUCP> I asked, essentially,
>>why not just use `register'?

---and of course, the answer is obvious: you cannot take the address
of a register.

>>>(char *) and (void *) have the same representation. [Doug]

>>Is this temporary? [me]

>It wasn't meant to be. [Doug]

Then why have (void *) at all?  A simple

	typedef char *pointer_t;

would suffice.
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