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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C blocks
Summary: i think i know...
Message-ID: <455@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 22:44:16 GMT
References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> <1990@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <1990@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
> In C, the following is effectivly a no op, it does something in bliss --
> Anybody care to guess what?  (A is a scalar)
> 		A = A;

Am I correct in thinking it does

		a = & a;

(the answer is written in C-style, of course, since this is the C group).
It's been a long while since I looked at a Bliss reference, & I have never
needed to code in it or had the opportunity, either.

In the same vein, does anybody want to explain why there is an 'auto'
keyword in C?  I have an answer (which doesn't really please me, I have
a higher opinion of DMR than that) but I'd like other opinions...

--
Ross Alexander @ Athabasca University
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