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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Union Problem on Sparc
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:00:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.031554.3208@rice.edu> brad@ds3.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>	union u x,z;
>	(void) doit(x,z);
>	(void) doit(0,0);

Did you try running "lint" on this?  You will find type mismatches.  `0'
is not a union value; it cannot be passed to a function that is expecting
to get a union.  On some machines this accidentally works, but on a lot of
modern ones, it doesn't.  There is no such thing as a "union constant" in
C, so you'll have to assign `0' to a union variable and pass the variable.

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