reading someone else's code, and ran across a declaration of the form: union thingy *thingy; (yes, the same name is used both for the union type and instance, but that's not why we're here.) what is the purpose of defining a union with only a single member? is this some tricky feature of C that i'm unaware of? i would *think* that this is equivalent to just writing: struct thingy *thingy; but i'd really like to be sure. thoughts? rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org