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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Message-ID: <11404@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:22:16 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <680011@hpmwjaa.HP.COM> jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera) writes:
>Doug Gwyn is determined to make C useless.  If sizeof((T*)0->member)
>is not valid in ANSI C, then ANSI C must be changed.  C is too
>valuable a programming language to prohibit useful constructs just
>because a few zealous pedants dislike them.

Would you like to explain why, then, I have only ever needed to do
something like that ONCE in my entire C programming career, and
then it was merely in order to conform to somebody else's already-
existing design botch?  (Also, I later figured out a better solution.)

Hardly "making C useless".