> (union and bit mapping) An archaism of C that remains > because old *nix programs use or used them.
>Legacy of the era of expensive RAM. Those days are long gone. There is someone in the chrome browser group who is just now complaining that he has exceeded 70GB ram (yes, ram). For me, GMAIL in chrome sucks up almost 1 GB after a couple days. > And for mapping variant record types. Would SMF data be a good example? Unions for SMF would be a bad idea if you could get them to work because variables for all SMF record types can be used at any time. Additionally, SMF data can have multiple segments. I think there is an offset variable for each segment. Since these are stacked, a pointer to the structure would be the logical choice. Jon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
