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From: willcr@bud.sos.ivy.isc.com (Will Crowder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Variable structure size -- ANSI ?
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Date: 17 Apr 91 19:48:25 GMT
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In article <1D6c12w164w@cellar.UUCP>, rogue@cellar.UUCP (Rogue Winter) writes:

|> Just a quick follow-up question: while
|> 
|>         struct foo
|>         {   short a;
|>             short b;
|>         }
|> is guaranteed to produce &b > &a, will
|> 
|>         struct bar
|>         {   short a,b;  }
|> also be guaranteed, or will the pointer order be compiler-dependent?

struct bar {
	short a, b;
};

is syntactically equivalent to

struct bar {
	short a;
	short b;
};

so yes, the behavior is the same.

Will

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