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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
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Subject: Re: Write once C and forth structs
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:43:08 -0400
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:39:27 -0400, Andrew Haley  
<andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
> Rod Pemberton <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:03:22 -0400, <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> The big problem here, is that C structs are limited
>>> to always starting at 0.
>>
>> What? ...
>>
>> In fact, I have absolutely no idea what you're even
>> attempting to say here.  Please explain what you
>> mean by:
>>
>>   "C structs are limited to always starting at 0".
>
> He's talking about type extension.  Like this in C++:
>
> typedef struct {
>   int one;
> } a;
>
> typedef struct : a {
>   int two;
> } b;
>
> Here, struct b extends a.
>

"C structs are limited to single, discrete instances."

C structs can be placed at any available memory location, i.e.,
start at a non-zero location.

So, "... starting with 0" really has nothing to do with this ...
It's just Hugh's bad choice of wording.


Rod Pemberton