Re: Unaligned Accesses (was Re: How to use silicon)

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From: Bruce Robertson;685-2912;;;tigge...
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 21:47

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Historically, reordering of structure members was disallowed because C
is so often used to talk to hardware.

However, nothing says you can't write a utility to reorder your
structure members at the C source level, optimizing for a particular
architecture.  Obviously, you would have to avoid using this utility
if the order of structure elements matters (you wouldn't want to do it
to the Unix kernel!)
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