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From: miron@fornax.UUCP (Miron Cuperman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Order of fields within one section
Keywords: fields, sections
Message-ID: <1083@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 19:32:54 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Is the order of fields within a section preserved?
For example:
class C
{
private:
	int size;
	float a[0];
}

Is 'a' guaranteed to be after size so I can do
	C *C1=malloc(sizeof(C)+n*sizeof(float));

If that is permissible, is it possible to use 'new' to allocate
an arbitrarily sized object?
-- 
	By me: Miron Cuperman <miron@cs.sfu.ca>