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From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function prototypes versus open()
Message-ID: <657@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 15:11:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.657
Posted: Tue Jun 30 15:11:59 1987
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
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In article <22196@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
["temporary" is a union of different flavors of functions]
>temporary.three_argument = fxn;
>dispatcher(..., temporary);

This makes a good case for the cast-into-union feature on my wishlist.

>Yes, this may be ugly, but it's type-correct, and may even be necessary
>in some implementations.

Yeah.  Of course people won't use it if they "know" it's overkill on their
vax. :-(  Fortunately, the situation in question doesn't come up very often.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint