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From: slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trouble with structures and callbacks
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Date: 24 Nov 90 01:17:20 GMT
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In article <1990Nov23.231941.14801@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
||In article <2450@kiwi.mpr.ca> baker@mprgate.mpr.ca (Sue Baker) writes:
||	DAMNIT, you can only pass the POINTER TO THE STRUCTURE,
||	NOT the actual structure.
||	So only the first 32-bits are passed, in this case
|
|No, I don't think so.  K&R1 says you can.  Just because you might
|not ordinarily want to.  Just because in this case it is definitely
|wrong.  Doesn't make it *always* wrong.

	No, not C won't let you do it, but Xt won't let you do it.
	The parameter must be of type caddr_t, usually 32-bits.
	I got a little annoyed because someone else asked essentially
	the same question here just recently.
	By the way, I think you missed a level of quoting on your
	quote attribution.