From: Sascha Zapf Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Union Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:13:53 +0100 Distribution: world Message-ID: <37B9DEA0.34A7048F@netcologne.de> References: <37B9C47F DOT DDDEE1C8 AT id-base DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-ra-nc4-144.netcologne.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.netcologne.de 934924521 547 195.14.254.144 (17 Aug 1999 21:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT news DOT netcologne DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 1999 21:15:21 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0321j (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: de-DE,en Lines: 31 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, the union use the same Place for all Member... for Example.. union utest { char a; char *next; int test; double fp; } This union take 8 Bytes of Memory, and the Programmer say what to read. sascha sephiroth schrieb: > What is the point of the "union" structure? Why not just use "struct"? > > -- > ---All words by--------------------------- > ---"Shiny Blue Freak", AKA Aaron JP------- > -"I'm a person, think of me as non other"- > --------http://get.to/blahblur------------ > ---http://members.dencity.com/blahblur/---