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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
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Date: 3 Feb 90 18:56:42 GMT
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In article <8314@sybase.sybase.com> carlw@mercury.UUCP (carl weidling) writes:
>	Why not have a PRE-processor directive that will re-arrange the
>fields in a structure to maximize efficiency one way or the other?

Yuck.  If this problem is worth solving, it is worth solving right.

Jon