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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Is this valid C?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:54:22 -0800
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Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> writes:
> On 2017-02-23, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
>> I think that the [] operator is defined in terms of the & and +
>> operators
>
> Did you mean the * and + operators?

Yes, I was sloppy, sorry.

Given an array object arr, the expression arr[i] involves, among other
things, the usual conversion of the array expression arr to a pointer
expression.  That conversion has undefined behavior if arr was defined
with the "register" keyword.

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