citing (was: Re: sizeof a struc field)

[Christoph Kuenkel]

In article <11333 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article i wrote:
> >> [gwyn, 0->.., garbage, no type, ...]
> >for me, ((thing *)0) sounds quite reasonable.  ...
> 
> Why is it that people keep citing one thing then reading it as something
> else?
> ((thing *)0) is of course JUST FINE.  How about reading what I SAID.

oops!  sorry!  i have to apologize.  of course i should have written
``((thing *) 0)->member sounds quite reasonable''.

as you probably know, i am a friend of ``((thing *) 0)'' as opposed to
NULL :-) if i'd really meant ``((thing *) 0)'' i would not have written
> [..........................................].  i agree that there is no
> meaningfull evaluation.  [...]

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.

christoph


ps: hu, pretty much emotions, cause of a null pointer...
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