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From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Dynamic struct's
Message-ID: <38578@ditka.Chicago.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 14:23:36 GMT
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Sender: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
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In article <52955@nigel.ee.udel.edu> DA3721A@acad.drake.edu writes:
>My question is: How does one dynamically declare a struct
>for accessing the correct number of fields? In other words, rather than doing
>	struct	{ int field1; char field2; int field3; } record;
>I would like to do something like
>	struct	{ int field1; char field2; ... int fieldx;} record;

There is no direct language support for this in C.  However alternates
can range from your writing out C code with the new structure, compiling it,
and access routines to it, and throwing them into a dynamic/share library,
to building the structure fully in a dynamic manne with things like
malloc() and an array of structures (continaing info like: field name,
type of field, field length, field alignment requirements, etc).
Neither is really an attractive choice.

- Greg
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