Non-Portable pointer assignment?
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Mon Jun 10 08:46:24 AEST 1991
In article <16359 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>-It's worse than that. Recently it was pointed out that a named enumeration
>-type is in scope as soon as its name is seen, and since there is no provision
>-for incomplete enumerated types, that means that `sizeof(enumtype)' is legal
>-before the members have been seen... so the size of the type cannot depend
>-on the values of the members!! (In X3J11's defence, this probably was not
>-deliberate.)
>
>I'm not sure X3J11 would agree with the above interpretation.
What part of it do you think they would disagree with? I see no
"interpretation" involved.
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