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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: compiler error?
Message-ID: <786@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 89 06:59:33 GMT
References: <1989Jun29.010600.6802@intacc.uucp> <1989Jun30.204822.2821@utzoo.uucp> <2722@splut.conmicro.com>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <2722@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>In article <1989Jun30.204822.2821@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>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.

But it does workaround the bug in the AT&T 286 SGS.  I just put
a #ifdef iAPX286 around the modified offsetof() definition.

>
>We all know that Microport's compiler is buggy as hell.

This particular bug goes back all the way to AT&T.  Its in the
Venix/286 LMCC compilation system (a.k.a. 286 SGS), too.

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