sizeof a struc field

[Norman Diamond]

>-)) ... WHY (((type *)0)->anything) is disallowed in the context
>-)) of compile-time expressions.

In article <11263 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>-) Because (type *)0 is SYNTACTICALLY a null pointer ...
>... there IS no type information, because the construct is
>officially meaningless.  You THINK you know what type was MEANT,
>but the compiler is not obliged to mimic your thought processes.
>This is not an issue about sizeof, but rather about ->.

No type information?

int *ip;
ip = (float *) 0;

Is this legal?  A null pointer can be assigned to ip.  Null pointers
have no type?

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