Is this a bug?
Daniel_Roedding at fiction.ms.sub.org
Daniel_Roedding at fiction.ms.sub.org
Sun Sep 9 17:33:11 AEST 1990
rob at raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
> I have code that looks like this:
> typedef union ut { T1 e1; T2 e2 } ut;
^^ ^^
|| ||
Ouch - this is not what you'd call elegant, is it??
> void f( int const p1, ut const p2 );
> void foo( void )
> {
> int i; ut u;
> ...
> f( i, u ); /* ERROR: typemismatch in parameter p2 in function f */
> ...
> }
> Calling it like so _does_ work
> f( i, *(ut const *)&u );
It really seems to be a bug. But if you omit the "const" modifier, you'll
have less trouble. I think many compilers don't know how to handle "const"
correctly.
BTW: Passing structures per value?? Have a stack size > 1 Meg?? :-)
Daniel
---
..!uunet!mcsun!unido!mcshh!veeble!fiction!daniel; daniel at fiction.ms.sub.org
if (*++*argv!='=')
(s->out=(void (*)(int,int,char *,...))outvstr)(s->id,s->spec,s->fmt);
I *love* C... :-)
More information about the Comp.lang.c
mailing list