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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <CLINE.89Jul1102015 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu> cline at sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
>	{	char	*p;
>		p->squiggle = 3;  /* implicit cast of "p" to "(worm_t *)p" */

I don't think that was ever allowed; some older C compilers did permit
pointers to one structure type to be used to access members of another
structure type, but that's as weird as I recall it getting.