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   In article <BRUCE.89Mar28134751@tigger.wv.tek.com> bruce@tigger.wv.tek.com (Bruce Robertson;685-2912;;;tigger) writes:
   >... 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!)

In article <1989Mar29.232103.6835@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>  If you look at the kernel sources, especially the older parts, you'll
>  find that there is a remarkable tendency for (e.g.) "char" members of
>  structs to be grouped together so they will pack densely.

What I was thinking of is things like structure definitions of stack
frames, device registers, etc.
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