address of register variables

[Raymond Dunn]

In article <9389 at cbnews.ATT.COM> mveao at cbnews.ATT.COM (eric.a.olson,54242,wi,1f018,508 374 5626) writes:
 >>>> What if x is in a register?
 >
 >Yeah.  What if?  I realize that registers might not have an
 >adress that can be taken, but why should that make taking its
 >address illegal rather than implementation-dependent?

Because the Language Reference specifically says it is illegal (even though it
is sensible on many architectures where registers map to memory locations).
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