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Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Fri Sep 7 09:01:15 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep6.091605.15732 at irisa.fr> ridoux at irisa.fr (Olivier Ridoux) writes:
  [ is &&&&&&******x portable? ]

No. Even if ******x has a meaning, its && does not.

  [ x is &*x, so x is &&&&&*****x by ``algebraic manipulation'' ]

No. You can reduce &*&*&*&*&*&*&*x to x, given x of a pointer type. But
you can't apply ``algebraic manipulation'' to meaningless expressions.

---Dan



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