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originally fields (or rather structure offsets) in C were GLOBAL and could be used with any struct pointer, the Unix V6/V7 kernels used this to good effect, bec
by Taniwha 8y ago
originally fields (or rather structure offsets) in C were GLOBAL and could be used with any struct pointer, the Unix V6/V7 kernels used this to good effect, because of this unions weren't really needed (you just used a different field name from a different structure)