In article <765d62e8-4da4-402e-a735-f0f7830f56cb@v17g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
<email7373388@kinglibrary.net> wrote:
>I'm working on a program which has a strange operator, :>. This is
>the syntax:

>((unsigned short)( var1)):>((void __near *)( var2 ))

>Any clue?

ISO C 6.4.6

In all aspects of the language, these six tokens
<: :> <% %> %: %:%:
behave, respectively, the same as these six tokens

[ ] { } # ##

except for their spelling.

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