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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: passing structures
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Date: 14 Oct 90 09:34:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct11.162737.11332@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <241@motto.UUCP> andrew@motto.UUCP (Andrew Walduck) writes:
>>result = add(a,{5,8});
>>But this isn't supported by ANSII! There's no way to pass a structure
>>as a parameter! It should be do-able, the prototype exists, so the 
>>types can be punned appropriately...any idea why it wasn't? No prior-art?

gcc already does this, although you need a typecast.  So there's your
prior-art.  I, however, have never used it (other than verifying that it
works, just now), and henry's suggestion works just as well.

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