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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Message-ID: <1468@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 17:37:36 GMT
References: <7710@microsoft.UUCP> <680011@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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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.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Whoa! If you can't find technical grounds to refute his arguments,
don't stoop to personal attacks. I certainly disagree with Doug on this,
not only on what it *should* mean, but what it *does* mean, but I won't
get into a name calling contest.

  Doug has been helpful in clarifying a number of issues and should not
be attacked personally because you disagree with him. Spend your time
finding technical arguments, or send him personal hate mail. Just
because he's totally wrong on this doesn't make him a bad person ;-)

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon