#: 14456 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    01-Mar-92  22:12:03
Sb: #C help
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: all

I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is possible, but it should be .
Maybe someone with a bit more C-knowledge can help... I want to get the size of
one element of a structure. Problem is that I don't have an actual structure to
work on, just a pointer or typedef.

Assuming

  typedef struct{
     char a1[40];
     int  i1[10];
  }foo;

What I'd like to do is this:

  int t=sizeof(foo.a1);

Which should set t==40. I just get an error. I tried it without the typedef and
used sizeof(struct foo.a1) but got the same problem.

If you actually create storage, things work fine:

  foo dummy;
  int t=dummy.a1;

I've worked around this by using  #define ASIZE 40 and then using this to set
the size in the struct. But there should be a way to do it my way! Any ideas?

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