return(struct) implementation

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UUCP
Wed Mar 22 10:00:13 AEST 1989


> In article <4425 at pt.cs.cmu.edu> marcoz at MARCOZ.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU (Marco Zagha) writes:

> Some broken implementations use a static area in the callee and just return
> its address.  This mechanism is not reentrant, is forbidden by the pANS, and
> will be considered no further in this article.

I can't find the place in my draft ANSI C spec that prohibits this.
Can you enlighten me?
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark at europa.att.com



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