Optimal structure field ordering

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In article <3459 at rpp386.UUCP> jfh at rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>it could be serious for any language to not specify how it rearranges
>structures.  it could make it impossible for separate compilation to
>work, period.

Not quite true.  As long as the compiler internally arranges the fields in
a structure the same way, no problems occur.  There is no need for you, the
user of a compiler, to know what order fields are stored in, as long as the
compiler is self-consistent (unless you are doing something like a block
move into a structure).
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