A few random type questions.

[Dave Brower]

In article <1988Aug28.030747.19105 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <530 at accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> mills at baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Mills) writes:
>>Also, is there any real reason for the 'auto' keyword?  Has anyone ever
>>used it for anything?
>
>It's not useful, but there is probably old code somewhere that declares
>some local int variables with "auto i;" instead of "int i;".  Sigh.

Sometimes I use auto for a local variable whose address I will be taking
later.  This is a hint that I can't make it register if optimization
fever strikes

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