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Joe wrote:
> 
> In article <4hgc4i$98q@solutions.solon.com>, walter briscoe wrote:
> >} LETTER_TYPE; /* I have found that list pointers are better placed
> >               ** at the beginning of structs than the end. */
> 
> Why?
> 
> --jf
> 
> [Because the nearly-legal generic linked list sorter is much faster if
>  it doesn't need to be given an offset?  :) -mod]

Or, looking at the structure definition, it is very soon clear that it implements 
a list. Or, to avoid unnecessary padding when other structure members are of 
shorter types than the current padding scheme. For this reason, I usually write 
structure members so that pointers come first, then the others starting from those 
with longer types to shorter ones.

Later,
 AriL
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