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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
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Subject: Re: c question: *printf'ing arrays
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:21:03 +0200 (CEST), Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> thanks. now the output gets redirected using >. i'm quite new to programming
> under unix. sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> so i guess there is no really easy way to output an inhomogeneous struct to
> stdout without using a loop to output each array contained in the struct.

No not really.  You have to do the sizeof() dance.