structure element order.

[j.p.schoonover]

> 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
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>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
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