RMS's reply to Doug Gwyn's reply to RMS's comments on ANSI C

gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP
Sat Jan 24 08:45:56 AEST 1987


In article <5556 at brl-smoke.ARPA> I wrote:
>	extern int	foo;
>	static char	*bar = (char *)&foo;
>are impossible for some linkers.

Prosser actually had in mind something like:
	extern int	foo;
	static char	bar = (char)(long)&foo;
but it looks more useless than the other example.
Don't blame him for my changing the example!



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