Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++

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From: Matthias Blume
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 14:23

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In article <43bdus$l2g@nntp.nta.no> ohk@hal.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen TF.E/DELAB) writes:

   What worries me is that there does not seem to be a clean way to ensure that a
   record has a specific *physical* layout. If it is to be used for systems
   programming, I think this is an important feature, because there is often a need
   to interface to devices which expect to use a fixed data format.

If you had read the C standard or any of the more popular documents
describing it then you would know that neither C nor C++ give you such
a guarantee either.

--
-Matthias

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From: blume@dynamic.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume)
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Subject: Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++
Date: 15 Sep 1995 14:23:47 GMT
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