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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: compiler error?
Message-ID: <2722@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 2 Jul 89 15:15:38 GMT
References: <1989Jun29.010600.6802@intacc.uucp> <1989Jun30.204822.2821@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <1989Jun30.204822.2821@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>#define offsetof(type, mem) ((char *)&((type *)NULL)->mem - (char *)NULL)
>Well, you might try simplifying offsetof to
>#define offsetof(type, mem) ((int)&((type *)NULL)->mem)

Ack!!! Assuming that (char *) == (int) is terrible programming practice.
I thought you knew better, Henry.

>A complaint to Microport about their defective
>compiler is probably also a good idea.

We all know that Microport's compiler is buggy as hell. Complaining
about it to them is unlikely to help, for two reasons:
1) They effectively are out of business: chapter 11, and nobody answers
the phones.
2) They didn't fix it while they were still around, and knew it was
buggy.

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