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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Arrays of Unknown Length in Structures (and sizeof)
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 20:03:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 20:03:44 1987
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Physical ordering in structures are, indeed, required to be in the same order
as the fields are declared.  Only *bit-fields* are not required to be in
order.  ANSI requires this, and massive amounts of code would break if it
were broken; lots of code does things like:

(char *)s->field2 - (char *)s->field1


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