Davidsen's device

[Larry Jones]

In article <888 at tub.UUCP>, net at tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
> In article <1430 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> > 	(*(asect < 1.0 ? hacs2 : hacs1)(asect);
> 
> You can even omit the * since it's superfluous.
> 
> Or is it?  Our K&R (the old edition) doesn't seem to say anything about
> this, but "gnucc -pedantic -ansi" doesn't complain about the following
> program (a good heuristic for checking whether it's valid C):

dpANS C allows the star to be omitted, K&R C requires it.
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