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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimal structure field ordering
Summary: Paranoia.
Message-ID: <915@garth.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 88 22:37:00 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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Chant: Don't vote--it only encourages them.

>>>it could be serious for any language to not specify how it rearranges
>>>structures.  it could make it impossible for separate compilation to
>>>work, period.
>>
>>Not quite true.  As long as the compiler internally arranges the fields in
>>a structure the same way, no problems occur.  There is no need for you, the

I guess I'm just paranoid--I only write out structures if I reread them with
some program. Otherwise I flatten them into a format I know I can control.