Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mit-athena!martillo From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: structure problem - error or warning? Message-ID: <34@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 21:20:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-athe.34 Posted: Sun Oct 14 21:20:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:21:59 EDT References: <564@ccice5.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 7 I think warning for illegal member use rather than error dates to the ancient history of the c compiler when there were not unions and you used to able to get member elements from an object which was not defined as a structure. I seem to remember two different structures could not have the same member. Some system code was written and depends on the ability to get members from objects not defined as structures, hence the warning.