Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!blandy From: blandy@awamore.cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Optimal structure field ordering Message-ID: <18637@cornell.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 88 16:43:25 GMT References: <163@navtech.uucp> <2775@ttrdc.UUCP> <164@navtech.uucp> <18630@cornell.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: blandy@cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 11 Sorry - should have done this the first time. The ordering of members in a structure (excluding bit fields) is also specified in the NEW K&R (v2), section A2.8 (Appendix A, the reference manual). Page 213, in my edition: "The members of a structure have addresses increasing in the order of their declarations." -- Jim Blandy - blandy@crnlcs.bitnet "insects were insects when man was just a burbling whatisit." - archie