citing (was: Re: sizeof a struc field)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1909 at uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl at uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
>my point was, that the standards point of view doesnt seem intuitiv to me
>so that i would appreciate you to explain *why* it should be obvious to a
>good c programmer (or even to me :-)  instead of just arguing that the 
>standard says so.

Well, I did start out calling it "garbage", which is how I as a
programmer actually think about it while writing code.  This
later evolved into "meaningless", because some folks showed an
affinity for garbage.