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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary
Message-ID: <14005:Oct1801:26:5890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 01:26:58 GMT
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In article <14061@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <7944:Oct906:02:0690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >  x is of type char [100][3],    sizeof(x) is 400
> Not permitted.  sizeof x is required to be 300.

It's a shame that a useful optimization is thereby prohibited. I just
posted a proposal to alt.lang.cfutures under the title ``array slicing''
that would let the programmer explicitly declare padding. In the
meantime, is there any portable way to get around this restriction?

---Dan