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From: mike@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Typeof operator in C (Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing)
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Date: 14 Jan 90 23:11:55 GMT
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In article <-121H63ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I said... what would typeof() return for some complex structure. This
>being the typeof that returns a first-class object, not the typeof from
>GCC 

>> `struct _T_aaa' or something similar.

>You mean it would return a string? That's an interesting idea. I would have
>expected it to return a small integer of some sort. You know: _T_INT,
>_T_CHAR, _T_DOUBLE.

C has no run-time "type" type.  The type value of a typeof construct
exists only in the mind of the compiler.

-- 
Mike Haertel <mike@ai.mit.edu>
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