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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:28:05 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> Someone, not anyone but the all-knowing Tim, said: "and those types
> are not compatible, because the two struct tags are different."
>
> Do you agree with that? Or is there something more to making two types
> be incompatible?

I don't recall the exact discussion and I wouldn't try to speak
for Tim, but I suspect he was saying that the fact that the two
struct tags are different is enough to know that the types are
not compatible.  In a similar vein, I know that 152016259867 and
152016259868 are unequal because one of them is even and the other
is odd.  That doesn't imply that 152016259867 and 3 are equal.

The rules for type compatibility are in the C standard.  Reading them
could give you even more things to complain about.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */