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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.182646.5481@twwells.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 18:26:46 GMT
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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?  That is, given:
:
: struct foo {
:     int a;
:     int b;
: };
:
: struct foo bar;
:
: Is &bar.a guaranteed to be < &bar.b?

I don't think that K&R guarantees it but it might.

The dpANS does, however, guarantee it. See 3.5.2.1.

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