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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Dynamic multidimensional arrays
Message-ID: <8113@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Jun 88 01:22:43 GMT
References: <10655@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1857@hubcap.UUCP> <8099@brl-smoke.ARPA> <11989@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11989@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>To do it you need to be able to align `data_area' above,

True.

>which is why we need some sort of standard  header.

Nah, the application can do this itself (it might be overly
conservative, but the amount of wasted space would be small).
(Hint: use a union.)