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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in some C compilers?
Message-ID: <10593@riks.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 24 Jul 89 02:20:00 GMT
References: <268@nlgvax.UUCP> <10583@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <268@nlgvax.UUCP> suhas@nlgvax.UUCP () writes:

>>The usage a.b when a is not a structure [or union] is allowed.

In article <10583@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>Not any more it isn't.

As Doug Gwyn has pointed out many times, compilers are permitted to
accept additional kinds of programs besides those that conform to
ANSI C.  The "weard" usage a.b (where a is not a structure or union)
is non-conforming, but might still be allowed by the vast majority
of compilers.

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