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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: zero length array
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 13:08:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 13:08:53 1987
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: NULL cast portability

>>   Is the following a portable way of finding out where a field
>>within a structure is located?
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>>    & (((struct any_struct_tag *) 0)->any_field)
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>Some compilers will refuse to cast NULL, specifically Lattice C up to 2.15(?)
>As far as I know all Unix compilers will cast NULL.

If true, then Lattice is seriously broken.  Are you saying that I can't say
time ((long *) 0) in Lattice C?  Or execl(pgmname, arg0, arg1, (char *) 0)?
If it can't do these things, then it isn't a C compiler!!
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