Type modifiers in C

[Peter da Silva]

> sense the static-vs-automatic distinction should be propagated.  (In some
> languages it would be prohibited to assign the address of an automatic
> variable to a more global pointer--i.e., a pointer whose extent exceeds
> that of the variable.)

I hope they never put that in 'C'. After all...

	char *myname;
	usage(s)
	char *s;
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "Unknown flag %s.\nUsage: %s ....\n", s, myname);
	}

	main(ac, av)
	int ac;
	char **av;
	{
		...
		myname=av[0];
		...
				usage(av[i]);
	}
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