Re: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn driver

Ron Flory (rjflory@feist.com)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:31:50 -0500


Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Jedi/Sector One <j@4u.net> writes:
>
> |> This behavior is *NOT* a bug in Egcs. A C compiler is free to reorder
> |> the members of a structure

Whoooa. Where did you get this idea from ?

A compiler may NOT reorder structure/class members, however it may
're-align' them to byte/word boundaries to accomidate efficiency/arch
concerns.. Please check into this again-

ron

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