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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Message-ID: <11395@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 19:39:55 GMT
References: <7710@microsoft.UUCP> <11086@smoke.BRL.MIL> <131@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil> <30488@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1323@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1323@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>... the expression is not evaluated except as to type.

Designation is not the same as evaluation.
That's why this is a compile-time error.