jps@cbnewsd.att.com (j.p.schoonover) (04/13/91)
> A question really, does the standard *guarantee* the physical order of structure > elements ? I looked in K&R 2 and couldn't find anything. > > Like, my smart compiler couldn't decide to 'shuffle' them around for reasons > best known to itself could it ?, ... or could it ? > > IMHO the technique used above is inferior to using char *filename and mallocing > the space separately simply for reasons of clarity, and if a compiler might > shuffle structure elements around it could one day lead to some rather curious > bugs ... > > Harry > --- > (smart Internet mailers) harry.protoolis@uk.sun.com > (smart JANET mailers) harry.protoolis@sun-microsystems.co.uk > (dumb uucp mailers) ...!sun!sunuk!harry.protoolis > > 'When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. > When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.' > - Dom Helder Camara From page 213 of K&R 2 "The members of a structure have addresses increasing in the order of their declarations." From this I would say that the compiler cannot shuffle the order of the structure elements. J. P. Schoonover iwsgw!jps