Type Qualifier [volatile]

[John S. Price]

In article <3115 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <4275 at infmx.UUCP> briand at infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
>I have been waiting for the people who were _there_ to answer, but so far
>no-one has.  The answer is HISTORY.  C had 'storage' qualifiers BEFORE it
>had types.  (Take a look at 'bc' some time.)  (At that time, it did not
 
I think I stated this from the beginning...  I guess everyone ignored
it.  Oh well...

Yes, the use of auto was inherited from earlier C implementations, and
from B, as the previous poster stated.



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