In article <31a3b322.442404233@sqarc> willer@carolian.com (Steve Willer)
writes:

|> >How about this:  Notate the following declaration correctly:
|> >	FILE *Foo;
|> >
|> >... Hmm.  Maybe it's "pst".  Nope, FILE may not be a struct.  Maybe it's
|> >"pch".  Nope, file may not be a char, even though FILE * is often really
|> >a pointer to char.  

|> ???? You're kidding, right? "FILE" is the struct used by the stdio
|> functions. How can any function get a descriptor number from an array of
|> chars?

No.  FILE is whatever the implementation wants it to be.  There is
absolutly nothing wrong with an implementation declaring a FILE as an
integral type (which it then uses as an index into an array of
whatevers); it is probably even a good idea to do so, since it keeps the
programmers honest (and means they don't even have to recompile if I
change some of the internals of my actual descripter).
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