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Article #328Re: Packing Across Inheritance Boundaries is Currently Allowed.
From: Ron Guilmette
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 18:53
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 18:53
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In article <1990Aug3.211414.23872@watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes: > >I think that packing of classes is allowed by the current definition of >C++... Of course it is ALLOWED. Lots of things are allowed. That's not the point. The point is "What do the people who need inheritance-boundary packing to ALWAYS occur (regardless of which compiler they are using) do?" If you are trying to write portable code, and you need the kind of packing that we are talking about, as of now you are out of luck because the closest thing that we currently have to a "standard" is E&S which does not specify a way to *force* this kind of packing to occur regardless of which "conforming" implementation you are using. -- // Ron Guilmette // C++ Entomologist // Internet: rfg@ncd.com uucp: ...uunet!lupine!rfg // Motto: If it sticks, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!lupine!rfg From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Packing Across Inheritance Boundaries is Currently Allowed. Message-ID: <1086@lupine.NCD.COM> Date: 4 Aug 90 18:53:00 GMT References: <1990Aug3.211414.23872@watmath.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA Lines: 21