On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:26:45 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>Continuing the assembler analogy, myStruct * foo is roughly equivalent to 
>assembler L Rn,FOO/USING MYSTRUCT,Rn .
> 
Pascal's WITH statement allowed brief member references without
the requirement for unique names.

>Assembler is a terrible starting point, except considering what the problem 
>was. The problem was "we have a bunch of new C development and lots of tables 
>already defined in assembler." ....
>
Like, "What's the best way from London to San Francisco if you're
already in New York?"

(Old punchline:  "If'n I wuz you I wouldn't of started from here!")

What about Assembler ORG to C "union"?

-- gil

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