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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Message-ID: <11280@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 89 03:46:39 GMT
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In article <10960@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
>Null pointers have no type?

That's not what I've been saying.  Garbage constructs have no type.
((thing*)0)->member is a garbage construct.  It has no type.

In case you don't know what I mean by "garbage construct", it is
a sequence of C source characters for which the Standard assigns
no valid meaning.