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From: rpk@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: "packed" objects
Summary: Acknowledge that knowing about packing is useful
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Date: 5 Aug 90 21:07:44 GMT
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In article <1944@ux.acs.umn.edu> hopper@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric Hopper) writes:
>	Currently the methods of structure member ordering, and packing
>specifications are easy enough to figure out that you can easily write a
>structure that models some hardware/OS data structure rather well.

Why not give names to the packing (arrangment, really ) strategies ?
The default strategy would be good for packing bit fields, being
clever about inheritance, etc., while others would have definite,
documented implications for the bitwise arrangement of members.
-- 
Robert P. Krajewski
Internet: rpk@ai.mit.edu ; Lotus: robert_krajewski.lotus@crd.dnet.lotus.com