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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Struct Error
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:57:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:37:27 +0000, bart wrote:

> Yet childp is fine, but childa is a gcc compiler error. Why is that?

Because it needs to know the size of the type to work out the function 
type’s calling convention.