Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 3.14
>
> 3.14 object: A region of data storage in the execution environment,
> the contents of which can represent values. Except for
> bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or
> mo
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>
|> > You can look at other things too... you can memcpy structures, pass
|> > them into functions, call sizeof, put them in arrays... it _is_ a
|> > physical representation.
|>
|> One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899
struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct;
struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct;
I would expect both structs to be 8byte in size , or atleast the same size !
but good_struct turns out to be 8bytes and bad_struct 12 .
what am I doing wrong here ?
thx !
hofrat
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:43:14PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Previous to the "Draft" "Proposal" of C98, there were no such
> requirements. And so-called ANSI -C specifically declined to
> define any order within structures.
As one of the founding members of the X3J11 ANSI committee, and
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:56:06 -0400 (EDT),
> > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >FYI, structures are designed to be accessed only by their member-names.
> > >Therefore, the compiler
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:56:06 -0400 (EDT),
> "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >FYI, structures are designed to be accessed only by their member-names.
> >Therefore, the compiler is free to put members at any offset. In fact,
> >members, o
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> can someone explain to me whats happening here ?
>
> --simple.c--
> #include
> #include
>
> struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct;
> struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct;
>
[SNIPPED...]
> ---
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:54:20PM +0200, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
> struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct;
> struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct;
>
> I would expect both structs to be 8byte in size , or atleast the same size !
> but good_struct turns out to be 8bytes and bad_s
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