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Article #523Re: Packing, Ordering, and Rearranging
From: Bob ATKINSON
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 21:41
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 21:41
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes: >>One cannot write portable software, and in general take control of the >>intimate details of structural layout. >Successful languages (so far) give complete control where it is demanded >by the programmer. Jim, I believe, agrees with you that such demands do arise and must be provided for. He merely points out that such control is NON-PORTABLE and never has been in C++ OR C. From this viewpoint, he argues that therefore such explicit control should be the exception rather than the rule; in the absence of any explict programmer demands, the compiler should be free to have more control about structure/class layout than is currently the case. >Kent, the man from xanth. Bob Atkinson Microsoft
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!microsoft!bobatk From: bobatk@microsoft.UUCP (Bob ATKINSON) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Packing, Ordering, and Rearranging Message-ID: <57650@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 90 21:41:30 GMT References: <1407@lupine.NCD.COM> <2218@ux.acs.umn.edu> <57467@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Sep21.130531.7437@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: bobatk@microsoft.UUCP (Bob ATKINSON) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 21