Subject: misc/1442: lint fails on register unions
To: netbsd problem report <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ju\"rgen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/07/1995 12:35:14
>Number:         1442
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       lint fails on register unions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep  7 06:50:00 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ju"rgen Fluk
>Organization:
	marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau, Germany
>Release:        95/08/26
>Environment:
System: NetBSD robin 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (ROBIN) #2: Fri Sep 1 12:18:58 MSZ 1995 root@robin:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROBIN i386

>Description:
	lint fails with "error: expr() 1" on access of a register union.
>How-To-Repeat:
	cat <<EOT >x.c
	copyval()
	{
		register union {
			char *c;
		} p;

		p.c = "test";
	}
	EOT
	lint x.c
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>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
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