From: Christian Froeschlin <froesccn@cip.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/02
Date: 1997-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33BA7918.41C6@cip.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.867589873@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> suppose that type T is a struct with a double field and an int
> field. The size of this struct would be 12 bytes, but its
> alignment requirement is 8, so it would not be possible to laout
> the array b without alignment gaps???
Why would the alignment requirement be 8 ? On such a system
an implementation would probably pad the struct (which is allowed),
so sizeof(T) would be 16.
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__/ __/ - Christian Froeschlin
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/ _/ * If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, *
___/ _/ * however improbable, must be the BUG ! *
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1997-06-27 0:00 ` HELP ! need to insert value in array !! Ralph Silverman
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
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1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ed Hook
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Clive D.W. Feather
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Al Bowers
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Christian Froeschlin [this message]
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Alan Bowler
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Mark H. Wood
1997-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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