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From: "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Discriminated types with default discriminants
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> > A few compilers will add a level of indirection, and store the
> > variable-sized stuff elsewhere, reallocating storage when the amount
> > available is not big enough.
>
> It is quite difficult to get the indirect approach to work right.
> Think about renaming a subcomponent of the thing,

Ummm ... isn't this exactly what's disallowed by 8.5.1(5)?

                                          -- Adam