Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: the one and only objection to C Message-ID: <20980048@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 17:05:13 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980048 Posted: Fri Jan 4 17:05:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:49:56 EST References: <640@bunker.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13 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 ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.