Re: Character arrays in structures and address alignment -- any standard?

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From: Richard Tobin
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:14

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In article <Bs5pMJ.3nM@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>: Please show a strictly conforming program which can tell the difference
>: between "necessary" padding and "unnecessary" padding.

>For example:

>	printf("%d\n", (offsetof(foo, y) - offset(foo, x)) - sizeof(int));

*If* the standard allows "unnecessary" padding, this program is not
strictly conforming.

(1.7 Compliance)

"A strictly conforming program ... shall not produce output dependent
on any unspecified, undefined, or implementation-defined behavior"

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.

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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Character arrays in structures and address alignment -- any standard?
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