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From: dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: structure element offsets
Message-ID: <428@viper.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 04:31:06 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.428
Posted: Mon Dec  8 04:31:06 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 13:55:57 EST
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Reply-To: dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Minneapolis, MN
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Keywords: structure, offset

In article <3810@watmath.UUCP> rbutterworth@watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes:
 >> however, for good or ill,
 >> C has been defined such that all members-of-structures share the
 >> same name-space.
 >This hasn't been true for many years.
 >Are there still any compilers out there that can't handle this?
 >struct one {int a; int b;};
 >struct two {float b; float a};

Well, I learn something new everyday!  The last time I checked
it (back about 5 years ago on Version 7) the statement I made
was true.  Now it is not.  The MS-DOS C compiler I used in that
time had all MOS' in the same name-space, so I never suspected that
they changed it in the real (UNIX) world.  I thank you for pointing
this out to me, and apologize for my earlier, stupid statements.

I think that I will stop citing Kernighan & Ritchie since the
world seems to have proceeded past them.

The following statement used to be true:
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