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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unions
Keywords: What can they be used for?
Message-ID: <6142@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 16:11:44 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:
>Except for the memory savings, what are Unions suited for?

Well, I guess that they indicate something about the usage of the
fields in the union.  This is a programmer convenience rather than a
runtime convenience.

	    ;-D on  ( CFL -- C-free language )  Pardo
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