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Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?)

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On 2013-09-07, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 2013-09-02, Árpád Goretity <arpad.goretity@gmail.com> wrote:

>>     typedef struct Header {
>>         size_t length;
>>         /* other members follow */
>>     } Header;

>>     size_t n_hdr = (sizeof(Header) + sizeof(Value) - 1) / sizeof(Value);
>
> that n_hdr expression looks kind of dodgy, basically it evaluates to 1, 
> anyone who goes to such lengths to caclulate 1 is unlikley to have
> discovered something special. After that  I stopped trying to understand 
> your code

I am of course wrong - having ignored the "/* other members follow */"
comment. sorry.


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Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Árpád Goretity <arpad.goretity@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 04:08 -0500
  Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2013-09-06 23:24 -0500
    Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2013-09-11 17:26 -0500
      Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Árpád Goretity <arpad.goretity@gmail.com> - 2013-10-03 13:37 -0500
        Re: Portable/strictly conforming alternative to the "struct hack" (?) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2013-10-08 16:38 -0500

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