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From: stew@harvard.ARPA (Stew Rubenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Recursive data structures with Megamax C?
Message-ID: <268@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 12:33:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 12:33:25 1985
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Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard
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In article <2953@sdcc3.UUCP> drf@sdcc3.UUCP (Donald R. Fredkin) writes:
>Yesterday evening I heard the claim at the programmers SIG of the San
>Diego Macintosh Users' Group that the Megamax C compiler did not permit
>recursive declarations of the following kind:
>
>	struct bucket {
>		char data[10];
>		struct bucket *next;
>	}
>
>I am seriously considering purchasing the Megamax C compiler, and I
>would appreciate hearing from Megamax C users whether this is indeed
>true.
>
>Thank you.

This is not, repeat NOT, true.  I have used only version 2.0 and later,
so it is possible that this was true in an early release.  But I can
assure you that it is NOT true now.

Stew