Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!newspump.sol.net!posts.news.megabitz.net!nnrp3-asbnva.megabitz.net!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated Subject: Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:38:02 -0500 (CDT) Organization: None to speak of Sender: clcm@herd.plethora.net Approved: clc@plethora.net Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Return-Path: X-Original-to: clcm@plethora.net X-Auth-sender: U2FsdGVkX1/0xjUyVV4U3DDokqdeVnqa Cancel-Lock: sha1:S40A5BKpok5RoHhR5i3rC7OhACA= sha1:UoZe8Q00XsOfC2htGrRLAjU8lTw= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Delivered-To: clcm@localhost.plethora.net Content-Transfer-encoding: 8bit Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Oct 2013 21:38:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4efdc93b.news.megabitz.net X-Trace: DXC=G_n^CKP9L3mUcb@WR@jImg><6FU_Q:4mb^W\Y;gN2lOmY;Q@mP3hlWahA>>DLi;CSb7d@DE\31QYee4?]5YdC writes: >> anyone who goes to such lengths to caclulate 1 is unlikley to have > discovered something special > > Don't insult me. > >> that n_hdr expression looks kind of dodgy, basically it evaluates to 1, > > How do you know? > >> Look at modern C compilers ... > this has been perfectly valid, well-behaved C since the 1999 standard: > > Again, I don't like being like an uninformed moron. I know we have > C99. I just want to support Visual "Crappy" studio which > doesn't. Hence I can't use C99. That's all. When you post a followup, your newsreader should automatically insert an attribution line, so that readers can tell who wrote what. Please don't delete it. You quote an article posted by Jasen Betts on September 6, but the headers indicate that you replied to another article that he posted on September 11, in which Jasen wrote: | I am of course wrong - having ignored the "/* other members follow */" | comment. sorry. It's possible you didn't see that; this is a moderated group, which can do funny things with headers and message-ids (and I'm too lazy to track it down further). -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister" -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm@plethora.net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry.