Explanation, please!

[Chris Torek]

-In article <9064 at pur-ee.UUCP> hankd at pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
->		*(((struct t512 *) q)++) = *(((struct t512 *) p)++);
->	but, for some unknown reason, the VAX C compiler didn't like that.

In article <339 at quintus.UUCP> jabir at quintus.uucp (Jabir Hussain) writes:
-one portable way around that is to do something like:
-
-	typedef char *caddr_t;
-	typedef union {
-	    struct { int t[512]; } t512;
-	    struct { int t[256]; } t256;
-	    caddr_t               caddr;
-	} ustruct_t;
	...
-	    if (n & 512) *dst.t512++ = *src.t512++;

`Portable'?  I suggest you try it on a Data General MV/10000.
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