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From: mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Point me in the right direction
Message-ID: <584@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 24 Feb 89 14:27:41 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
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In article <3735@arcturus> evil@arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>> Of course, adding:
>> 	#define N_FCONSTS (sizeof(fund_consts)/sizeof(double)) 

>This is all well and good, but what about arrays of structures?  Am I
>S.O.L. because of inter-array-element padding if I:

It may be easier to use 

#define N_WHATEVER (sizeof(snarf)/sizeof(snarf[0]))

This works for any array that has a static size and constant sized
elements (the majority of the cases where you would want to use this kind
of trick anyways).


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