Addressing struct without ->

[Avery Colter]

Henry Spencer writes:
>In article <91010.084408NIBMSCM at NDSUVM1.BITNET> NIBMSCM at NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>>with some other languages, such as Pascal, I had the capability to use
>>the 'using' keyword, giving the address of a structure and then address
>>the elements of that structure without the necessity of using the
>>ptr->element notation (could simply use element).
>>  Could anyone out there tell me how I can implement this in 'C' ...

>Can't be done (in any convenient way) in standard C.

How about....

#define element ptr->element

for each element involved?

Then, in the program itself, use ptr as a dummy, assigning it to
point to whichever structure is appropos.

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