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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:28:13
Message-Id: i0856s$6ae$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by dev-random@mail.ru
1 On 06/27/2010 09:10 PM, dev-random@××××.ru wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> ...
4 >> It is allowed. Section 7.1.1, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the C++ standard:
5 >> ...
6 >
7 > Not in C.
8 > ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (aka C99), section 6.7.1, note 101:
9 >> The implementation may treat any register declaration simply as an auto
10 >> declaration. However, whether or not addressable storage is actually
11 >> used, the address of any part of an object declared with storage-class
12 >> specifier register cannot be computed, either explicitly (by use of the
13 >> unary& operator as discussed in 6.5.3.2) or implicitly (by converting
14 >> an array name to a pointer as discussed in 6.3.2.1). Thus, the only
15 >> operator that can be applied to an array declared with storage-class
16 >> specifier register is sizeof.
17
18 Wasn't aware of the difference here. But anyway, the warning is issued
19 by GCC for C++ too, not just C.