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From: "Ángel González" <keisial@gmail.com>
To: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Flexible array member initializers
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CDDDFB.2060105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52CDB80F.2080807@gmail.com>

On 08/01/14 21:41, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Ideally I could create some sort of generic macro that "casts" (using
> the term very loosely) any static initializer to an array of unsigned
> char that contains its binary representation.  Sadly, I don't think
> that's actually possible.
I think you want to use an union, not a flexible array (yes, you will
overallocate for some types, but should be saner).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08  5:13 Ian Pilcher
2014-01-08  8:59 ` Jonathan Wakely
2014-01-08 20:41   ` Ian Pilcher
2014-01-08 21:00     ` Marc Glisse
2014-01-08 21:46       ` Ian Pilcher
2014-01-08 21:43     ` Jonathan Wakely
2014-01-08 21:49       ` Ian Pilcher
2014-01-08 22:21         ` Jonathan Wakely
2014-01-08 23:23     ` Ángel González [this message]
2014-01-11  2:03       ` Ian Pilcher

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