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Article #4992Re: Initializing a variable in terms of itself
From: Timothy A. McDaniel
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:18
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:18
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In article <KANZE.96Apr2171323@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>,
James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
>In article <4jpj9l$ik9@cnn.Princeton.EDU> tim@franck (Tim Hollebeek)
>writes:
...
>|> int x = x;
...
>The reference to `x' in the initialization expression is not, per se,
>illegal. 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? (Or would it have
to be
void *x = (void *) &x;
?)
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