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Re: [using gcc book] ch5.6 referring to a type with typeof


On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Chris Devers <cdevers@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> >> So I would strike out all discussion of [plans].
> >
> > Here, or everywhere?
>
> I meant just here.

Oh good.

> > Would it be prudent to seek out some or all examples of these future
> > looking statements & put them on the list for review? I'm thinking
> > that this would be a very large amount of material to examine.
>
> It may well be a lot of material.  However, I think it would be a good
> idea.  A lot of those statements are quite old.

Alright then, I'll put up links to the .texi files I'm working on, and
will generate

> >     Names that start with underscores are used for the local
> >     variables. This reduces the risk of conflict with variable
> >     names occurring in the expressions substituted for 'a' and
> >     'b'. There is no way to eliminate this risk entirely, but
> >     it can be avoided in practice by sticking to such a naming
> >     convention.
> >
> > Does it still gets the point across this way?
>
> That sounds good to me.

Okay, it's in. Thanks for the help.


-- 
Chris Devers    cdevers@pobox.com

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1 (During the big band era) between fifty and sixty feet, depending on
  the orientation of Count Basie's piano.  <-- THIS ONE IS MY FAVORITE :)
2 (Of a computer bus) an upper limit to the error-transfer rate.

    -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995


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