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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: realloc
Message-ID: <9970@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:15:11 GMT
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In article <812@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>Could you clue me in on what existing proposals there are on zero
>sized objects? Few may be interested, but I am.

There aren't any at this point.  It was agreed to keep them out of the
pANS.  Also I think there was agreement that any such proposal would
have to include as thorough a review of the standard for potential
impact as I did when I proposed "short char".  The 0-sized object SIG,
if it's going to do anything at all, will have to determine how such a
proposal would fit into a future revised standard and come up with
some experimental implementations and applications that use the feature
in order to be able to justify adding it at some future date.  I haven't
seen enough genuine interest to justify all that work.