herb sutter

Yes, this is a bug that was introduced in VC++ 2003 (aka 7.1). It's
misreading the declaration of STRUCT1::bob -- this becomes obvious from
the type mismatch error message you get when you insert lines that assign
from a STRUCT1::bob to a STRUCT2::bob.

The workaround is to declare fred and bob on separate lines, as in
STRUCT2. This bug has been fixed in the code base for the next version,
but I don't know when the fix will appear in a service pack for the
current version.

Herb

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miles dennis

I appreciate that the thread is concerned with the difference between
the struct interpretations in the various compiler editions, but there
appears to be some additional confusion as to what the struct elements
are supposed to be.

char (*fred)[10] declares fred as a ptr to array of 10 chars
char* (*fred)[10] would declare fred as a ptr to array of 10 ptrs to char
char* fred[10] array of 10 ptrs to char

char.

char,

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ste_margetts

Many thanks for your help. I'm looking forward to the update...

Steve

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