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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] C compiler question
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:34:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090715123436.f9edec2a.eekee57@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0907141245g657b7abdh29b825f62951f1c4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:45:56 -0700
Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> enough.
>
> there was a bug, plain and simple.
>
> struct T {
>   struct S s;
> };
>
> is not valid.  never was, never will be.
> fix the compiler already.

Newbie question: Does this statement apply to any struct S (meaning you can never have a struct as member of another struct), or does it only apply in cases where the structure of S is not known at that point?


--
Ethan Grammatikidis

Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-12  3:59 Adriano Verardo
2009-07-12 16:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14  2:58   ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-14  3:14     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 14:00       ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-14 14:57         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 16:26           ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-14 16:38             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 17:18       ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-14 17:46         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 18:59           ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-14 19:29             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 19:45               ` Russ Cox
2009-07-15 11:34                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2009-07-15 11:38                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 20:28               ` [9fans] pointers to incomplete types Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-15  9:25               ` [9fans] C compiler question robert wilson
2009-07-14  4:00     ` Russ Cox

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