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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Re: the one and only objection to C
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 17:05:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 17:05:13 1985
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Look, if you absolutely have to match an externally-imposed structure
format, then write a conversion routine between the C structure and the
external structure (considering it as an array of chars).  In virtually
every such case, the C structure can be on the stack, that is, in an "auto"
variable, so you don't have dynamic storage management overhead.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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