X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Oct 19 02:43:57 AEST 1990


In article <14005:Oct1801:26:5890 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>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.
>... is there any portable way to get around this restriction?

What on earth are you talking about?  It's a restriction on the
implementation, not on a program.  It actually guarantees MORE
semantics that portable programs can exploit.



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