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From: walter@hpcllz2.HP.COM (Walter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimal structure field ordering
Message-ID: <7330005@hpcllz2.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 88 23:53:43 GMT
References: <163@navtech.uucp>
Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab
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Doug Gwyn writes:

>In article <164@navtech.uucp> mark@navtech.UUCP (Mark Stevans) writes:
>>Some responder pointed out correctly that there is no guarantee in the C
>>language that the compiler will preserve your field ordering

>Oh, yes there is.
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Or, to quote the proposed standard (January, 1988, draft):

   "Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the 
   units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increase
   in the order in which they are declared."