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In <1992Oct29.163702.9849@texhrc.uucp>, pyeatt@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) wrote:
> In article <SPACKMAN.92Oct28142448@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de>, spackman@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephen Spackman) writes:
> |> both have really
> |> stupid type declaration syntax.
> 
> What could be simpler and more clear than:
> 
[Pascal deleted - or is that wishfull thinking :-]
> or in C:
> 
> typedef float[26] mytype;
> typedef char[201] yourtype;

Well, to start with, those are wrong. That should be:

typedef float mytype[26] ;
typedef char yourtype[201] ;

Which just goes to show you that it isn't all that simple and clear.

> would print out the value of the first element in the array, while the C
> statement
> 
> printf("%f\n",mine['a']);
>  
> would print out some weird value from the 97th position of an array which
> only contains 26 elements.  It would not complain, hiccup, warn, or 
> otherwize help you find your error.
> you have to write

You need to get a better compiler. Mine responds to the above with the
message:

test.c 7 Warning 83: reference beyond object size

	<mike