Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Optimal structure field ordering Message-ID: <5233@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Jul 88 23:45:10 GMT References: <163@navtech.uucp> <806@garth.UUCP> <254@obie.UUCP> <3459@rpp386.UUCP> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 14 In article <3459@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes: >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 user of a compiler, to know what order fields are stored in, as long as the compiler is self-consistent (unless you are doing something like a block move into a structure). -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194 ' ) ) You are in a little twisting maze of / / _ , __o ____ email paths, all different. / (_