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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:
|> >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,

Exactly.

|> then, and x would point to itself?  (Or would it have
|> to be
|>     void *x = (void *) &x;
|> ?)

The cast is not necessary.

I've even used this sort of thing in the past:

    struct NODE
    {
        NODE*           next ;
        NODE*           prec ;
    } ;

    struct NODE     root = { &root , &root } ;

Note that despite the added braces, etc., this is really just a variant
of the same theme.
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