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- From: diamond@tbj.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Initializing a variable in terms of itself
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 02:44:43 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
- Message-ID: <4kciur$l9l@usenet.pa.dec.com>
- References: <4jpj9l$ik9@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <KANZE.96Apr2171323@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <4k65h6$dfe@nntp.crl.com>
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- In article <4k65h6$dfe@nntp.crl.com>, tmcd@crl.com (Timothy A. McDaniel) writes:
- >In article <KANZE.96Apr2171323@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>,
- >James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
- >>The variable is declared, and available for use, as soon as
- >>the compiler sees the `=' sign.
-
- >So void *x = &x;
- >would be legal, then, and x would point to itself?
-
- Yes.
-
- >(Or would it have to be void *x = (void *) &x; ?)
-
- There is no difference between your two versions. Conversions either way
- between a pointer to object type (including a pointer to incomplete type)
- and a pointer to void are allowed implicitly and are identical to conversions
- obtained from explicit casts.
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