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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: memory allocation using malloc and free
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 14:08:17 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <danpop.825438439@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- >c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
- >
- >>By the way, it would have been good to show the other "following limits".
- >
- >OK, here they are:
-
- Thanks! I'm sorry I asked for that, by the way, since I have since looked them
- up. I found a university library with ANSI/ISO standards---it's a geek's
- heaven. There is POSIX, IEEE stuff...
-
- But it's great for the benefit of others.
-
- >2.2.4.1 Translation limits
-
- [cut...]
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- > * 12 pointer, array, and function declarators (in any combinations)
- > modifying an arithmetic, a structure, a union, or an incomplete type
- > in a declaration
-
- That one confused me upon a casual first parse, but it obviously refers to
- this:
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- TYPE D1, *D2, (*D3)(), D4[], ..., D12;
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- That is, at least twelve declarators in a row in what is one declaration.
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