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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sorting struct members for alignment (was Re: Unaligned Accesses)
Keywords: alignment
Message-ID: <3597@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 28 Mar 89 23:04:57 GMT
References: <37196@bbn.COM> <1989Mar16.190043.23227@utzoo.uucp> <11118@pur-ee.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <11118@pur-ee.UUCP>, hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
> In C, it has been a very common idiom to ASSUME that the address of the first
> member of a struct IS the address of the struct.  For example:

> struct s {
> 	char c;
> 	double d;
> } t;

A very good point. A more common case is something like this:

struct window_list {
	struct general_list wl_header;
	int wl_x0, wl_x1, wl_y0, wl_y1;
	struct damage_list wl_dlist;
	...
};
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