Is *& Legal?

[Eric Ladner]

Erik Berry wrote:

>   Some compilers allow function definitions like this in header files:
>
> int my_function(char *&next);
>
>   Is the *& construct legal in strict ANSI C?  If so, is there a way to
> coax gcc (GNU c compiler) to accept this syntax?  Apparently some HP/SUN
> compilers accept this by default, but gcc doesn't.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik

You may just need to add parens to avoid order of operations confusion
between different compilers.

Eric

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