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From: mahar@attila.WEITEK.COM (Mike Mahar)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Drum memory
Message-ID: <772@attila.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 04:29:24 GMT
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Actually, there is a problem in C with changing the order of the elements in
a structure for optimization.  Page 196 in Kernighan and Ritchie says:

"Within a structure, the objects declared have addresses which increase
 as their declarations are read left-to-right."

This means it is illegal in C to change the order of the elements in a
structure.
-- 
"The bug is in the package somewhere". |	Mike Mahar
 - Anyone who has used Ada	       | UUCP: {turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!mahar