X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <14061 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <7944:Oct906:02:0690 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >  x is of type char [100][3],    sizeof(x) is 400
> Not permitted.  sizeof x is required to be 300.

It's a shame that a useful optimization is thereby prohibited. I just
posted a proposal to alt.lang.cfutures under the title ``array slicing''
that would let the programmer explicitly declare padding. In the
meantime, is there any portable way to get around this restriction?

---Dan