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From: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Examine and ExNext return codes
Message-ID: <5643@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 14:06:33 GMT
References: <246@dsacg2.UUCP> <247@dsacg2.UUCP> <5596@cbmvax.UUCP> <1088@ardent.UUCP> <5631@cbmvax.UUCP> <574@boing.UUCP> <10261@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10261@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <574@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
> :This makes printing structures out easy.
> :For example:
> :struct point
> :{
> :	short x,y;
> :};
> :
> :struct point a;
> :
> :	could be printed out via
> :
> :	printf("point(%d,%d)\n",a);
> :
> 	This assumes that the compiler pushes a copy of the structure onto
> the stack.  I think there was a version of Manx that did something else (but
> I'm not sure).  What does ANSI have to say about this operation?
> 
> _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU

This wouldn't work on older C compilers. They would place a pointer to the
structure on the stack instead of the contents of the structure. The ANSI
standard says that the structure itself should be pushed.

           Dave
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