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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: c types problem
Message-ID: <175@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 09:36:02 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.175
Posted: Mon Jan  6 09:36:02 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jan-86 20:12:56 EST
References: <870@kuling.UUCP> <168@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Is this for inputs or outputs?

In article <168@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>In article <870@kuling.UUCP> gostas@kuling.UUCP (G|sta Simil{/ml) writes:
>>The formal (but ugly) way to solve this would proparbly be to use a union
>>for all (about 10) types. But now I wonder if anyone have a simpler but
>>resonably portable solution?
> ...

My original answer dealt with a union of outputs.  Re-reading the
message, it seems that you are talking about a union of inputs.
Oh, well, the principle remains the same.  I hope that you are
relying on a state variable somewhere (even if it  i s  extern) to
tell you what type the data is, rather than trusting the contents
to let you know.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}