Typeof operator in C (Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing)

[Mike Haertel]

In article <-121H63ggpc2 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I said... what would typeof() return for some complex structure. This
>being the typeof that returns a first-class object, not the typeof from
>GCC 

>> `struct _T_aaa' or something similar.

>You mean it would return a string? That's an interesting idea. I would have
>expected it to return a small integer of some sort. You know: _T_INT,
>_T_CHAR, _T_DOUBLE.

C has no run-time "type" type.  The type value of a typeof construct
exists only in the mind of the compiler.

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