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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Sorting struct members for alignment (was Re: Unaligned Acc
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Date: 28 Mar 89 23:44:07 GMT
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[discussions of reordering C structures deleted...]

Sorry, folks, this is from K&R I, p196, "8.5 Structure and union declarations
... Within a structure, the objects declared have addresses which increase
as their declarations are read left-to-right."

There is similar language in the pANS and K&R II.  Reordering C structure
members has never been and is not now correct behavior for a C compiler.

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