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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c padding problem
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:09:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71dba5add24e0e55da4b4b150cdfc6fd@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68f8eb08905533341341b17b21c8dcc7@9netics.com>

an unnamed structure is not equivalent to laying down its members
in the containing thing. it's equivalent to a field of that structure type with a name that
does not occur anywhere else, and subject to the same rules.
it's not intended for data layout but in general to avoid flatulent guff like
	u.s1.s2.u.s3.fred


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-22 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-21 23:10 erik quanstrom
2007-12-21 23:24 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-12-22  0:00   ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-21 23:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-12-21 23:52   ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-21 23:59     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-12-22  0:20       ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-22  4:25         ` Bruce Ellis
2007-12-22  4:34           ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-22  4:41             ` Bruce Ellis
2007-12-22 11:09   ` C H Forsyth [this message]

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