> From: Phil Blundell

    > I suspect it would probably not be all that hard to write some
    > sort of preprocessor to convert such code

Really? Check out:

  http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/pipe.c  

(Needless to say, none of the 'int *' things are actually pointers to
integers!)

In particular, what will lines like this:

  sleep(ip+2, PPIPE);

do, depending on what 'ip' is declared as?

        Noel

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