Structures and unions

[frktons]

I'm trying to define an array of structure type CHAR_INFO with 2000 elements,
and a union in the same time of an array of 8000 characters.

CHAR_INFO has already a union inside:

typedef struct _CHAR_INFO { // chi  
    union {                /* Unicode or ANSI character  */ 
        WCHAR UnicodeChar; 
        CHAR AsciiChar; 
    } Char; 
    WORD Attributes;       // text and background colors 
} CHAR_INFO, *PCHAR_INFO;

I am not able to figure how should I declare the structure with a union to
have the same area of 8000 bytes usable in both array mode and struct mode.

If I declare an array of structure type CHAR_INFO:

CHAR_INFO area_to_write[2000];

Where do I put the union to use the same area for an array of 8000 characters?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Salem]

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