Large structures

"Andrzej Wasowski" <wasowski@data.pl>
13 Jun 2002 21:06:52 -0400

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From: "Andrzej Wasowski" <wasowski@data.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Jun 2002 21:06:52 -0400
Organization: UNI-C
Keywords: C, question, comment
Posted-Date: 13 Jun 2002 21:06:52 EDT

Is it possible to declare a structure of arbitrary length in C? I have
a code generation scheme in mind which uses a structure which might
happen to have over 2000 fields. Does it conform to ANSI C? Moreover,
dear compiler writers - do you know if C compilers tend to limit this
value?


Otherwise, any hint for alignment of datastructure of nonuniform shape
statically without using an artificially big structure?


andrzej
--
String.concat[ "wasowski", "@", "data", ".", "pl"]
[C99 says that a portable C program can have no more than 1023
elements in a structure declaration. But I don't know what the limits
in real compilers are. -John]

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