[net.lang.c] Shared initial sequences between structures

moore@cad.UUCP (Peter Moore) (12/24/85)

Since this technique is quite useful for implementing, albeit crudely,
generic operators as well as Smalltalk-style inheritance, it would be
nice if this could be explicitely guarenteed in the standard.  If in
addition the offset of all members of a union are guarenteed to be the
same (and why not zero?), then the requirement of C.3.1.3 for shared
initial sequences inside unions would automatically be met.

	Peter Moore
        moore@Berkeley or ..!ucbvax!moore