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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de>
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Subject: Re: Zero length Objects
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Frank J. Lhota <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:

> This is what I love about this NG. In the thread "A simple ADA puzzle", we
> had an interesting and informative discussion of how a compiler should
> handle a type whose objects may be billions of bytes long. Now in this
> thread, we are having an equally enlightening discussion of types whose
> objects are potentially zero bytes long. Looks like we have covered both
> ends of the spectrum!

You missed objects with negative storage size, but I guess bufferoverflows
are offtopic in cla, otherwise it'd be called comp.lang.c.


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