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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Summary: while you're asking
Message-ID: <1075@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 89 20:29:58 GMT
References: <7710@microsoft.UUCP> <44200027@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <44200027@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, davies@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:

|  This whole discussion seems a bit abstract - can anybody cite references
|  from the standard or examples of compiler behaviour when confronted
|  with something like this?

  Better yet, can someone post a method to get the size of a field
without having to create the struct or union which *is*
	a. portable
	b. readable

  Why discuss the virtues of NULL and why it should be special in this
case, assume that even if it works people will flame you for using it,
and let someone prove how smart they are by posting a sloution to the
problem.

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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
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