In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you're worried about such things happening then you can use
> the pre-processor to catch things that may make your structures
> too large.
>
> > I wonder how too "big" can be detected. The code in question is perfectly
> > valid syntactically and semantically correct C-code.
>
> There's code that #error (maybe #warning?) when it can detect that the
> size of a struct has been unreasonably grown, it's done via the
> pre-processor.
I doubt if it's possible to implement that at compile time. Remember,
the preprocessor doesn't understand "sizeof". It doesn't recognize
keywords in expressions at all.
John
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