Optimal structure field ordering

[Walter Murray]

Doug Gwyn writes:

>In article <164 at navtech.uucp> mark at navtech.UUCP (Mark Stevans) writes:
>>Some responder pointed out correctly that there is no guarantee in the C
>>language that the compiler will preserve your field ordering

>Oh, yes there is.
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Or, to quote the proposed standard (January, 1988, draft):

   "Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the 
   units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increase
   in the order in which they are declared."