Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!mauney From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: the one and only objection to C Message-ID: <2750@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 15:25:14 EST Article-I.D.: ncsu.2750 Posted: Wed Jan 2 15:25:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:17:06 EST References: <1265@orca.UUCP> <86@mit-athena.ARPA> <4841@utzoo.UUCP> <545@vu44.UUCP> <5062@rochester.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 15 > (1) I have seen an implementation of Pascal which allowed the > programmer to specify the byte offset of each field. Thus the > programmer gets complete control over the packing in the > record/structure. (Even overlapping fields were possible. Ick!) The > "packed" pragma would be the special case where the offsets are > consecutive. OK, so we want to add representation specifications and pragmas to C. How about if we also add packages, generics, overloading, and tasking. Then we'd really have something. :-) -- Jon Mauney mcnc!ncsu!mauney C.S. Dept, N. C. State University (Ada? Isn't that a novel by Vladimir Nabokov?)