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From: tim@crackle.amd.com (Tim Olson)
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Subject: Re: Endian wars
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Date: 9 Feb 89 22:59:11 GMT
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In article <8496@aw.sei.cmu.edu> firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
| However, is only a single byte required?  Suppose you have an array of
| a struct; is it legal to compute the address of array[upb+1].component?
| If so, then you really do need to allocate a complete dead array element.

It is not legal to compute the address of array[upb+1].component (at
least if component has a non-zero offset from the beginning of the
structure).


	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@crackle.amd.com)