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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Addressing struct without ->
Message-ID: <22711@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 91 21:59:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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Henry Spencer writes:
>In article <91010.084408NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>>with some other languages, such as Pascal, I had the capability to use
>>the 'using' keyword, giving the address of a structure and then address
>>the elements of that structure without the necessity of using the
>>ptr->element notation (could simply use element).
>>  Could anyone out there tell me how I can implement this in 'C' ...

>Can't be done (in any convenient way) in standard C.

How about....

#define element ptr->element

for each element involved?

Then, in the program itself, use ptr as a dummy, assigning it to
point to whichever structure is appropos.

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