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Re: Randomly ordered fields !?!? (Was: "packed" objects)

#464
From: Reid Ellis
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 17:22
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In <1313@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>I'm not keen on the idea that the use of the word "struct" (as opposed to
>"class") should be taken as the indicator of the programmer's desires in

If you actually do this, how about using "volatile"?  e.g.:

		volatile class foo {
			int a;
			char b;
			someType c;
		};

It even looks like what you mean.  Not that I think this is a good
idea either, however. :-)  Just suggesting a "nicer" syntax.

					Reid
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