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In article <v04c0ul05vht40@corp.supernews.com>, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> a) is not a problem in practice. We did this in Claw, and all compilers
> put the tag at offset 0. (A few can be told to put it elsewhere, but
> that wasn't generally available a few years ago when we did that.) The
> size is a problem in that it is implementation-defined.

Which compilers allowed you (at the time) to specify the tag position ?

What language construct did they use to accept that specification ?