Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!umd5!mimsy!chris 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 Lines: 23 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. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris