Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.173421.1860@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 17:34:21 GMT

In article <1498@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>Is the order of elements of a structure guaranteed to be the same in memory
>as in the program? ...

In ANSI C, yes.  (Section 3.5.2.1)  In pre-ANSI implementations, well,
probably.
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