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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Message-ID: <11727@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Dec 89 01:18:30 GMT
References: <2298@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5486@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5486@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
>In article <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> >I'm POC for a zero-sized object special interest group,
> >but frankly there has been little activity since the
> >committee's consensus was clearly against such objects.
>Wouldn't this kind of group, because of its purpose, have 
>zero members?  (Not counting the POC (which is, after all,
>just a pointer)   :-)

One nifty use for zero-sized objects would be to store the information
content of postings like that :-)

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