struct comparison
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Jul 29 03:38:48 AEST 1989
...
> char bar;
> short uh_oh;
> }
>
>Guess what happens? The code breaks!! By seemingly innocently adding
>a field to the struct, you now have to go through and fix all the code
>you broke.
Are you implying here that:
1) "uh_oh" isn't supposed to be compared when you do structure
comparisons
or
2) C-SEE compiles all structure comparisons into comparisons of
all the bytes of the structure?
If 2), I think it's been established that the *only* correct definition
of structure comparison would be member-by-member, and if that means the
structure comparison doesn't compile into e.g. a single "CMPCn"
instruction on a VAX, too bad. While this may surprise some users of
the structure comparison construct (and, if it surprises a lot of them,
it means advocates of structure comparison had better be prepared to
educate said users), it means that adding a structure member that causes
padding to be added to a structure won't break structure comparisons.
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