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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: citing (was: Re: sizeof a struc field)
Message-ID: <11406@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:44:21 GMT
References: <7710@microsoft.UUCP> <11086@smoke.BRL.MIL> <131@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil> <11333@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1909@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1909@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
>my point was, that the standards point of view doesnt seem intuitiv to me
>so that i would appreciate you to explain *why* it should be obvious to a
>good c programmer (or even to me :-)  instead of just arguing that the 
>standard says so.

Well, I did start out calling it "garbage", which is how I as a
programmer actually think about it while writing code.  This
later evolved into "meaningless", because some folks showed an
affinity for garbage.