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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help, page 197 K&R !!!
Message-ID: <10481@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Jul 89 03:25:01 GMT
References: <646@kl-cs.UUCP> <648@kl-cs.UUCP> <CLINE.89Jul1102015@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <CLINE.89Jul1102015@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
>	{	char	*p;
>		p->squiggle = 3;  /* implicit cast of "p" to "(worm_t *)p" */

I don't think that was ever allowed; some older C compilers did permit
pointers to one structure type to be used to access members of another
structure type, but that's as weird as I recall it getting.