Re: structure layout in C

stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman)
Wed, 13 May 1992 00:23:11 GMT

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From: stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman)
Keywords: C
Organization: University of Chicago CILS
References: 92-05-066
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 00:23:11 GMT

Microsoft C has had bugs in structure allocation; we had much grief
caused us by its deciding to align things according to their BASEtypes
in one version (so (char *(*)()) was byte aligned). I imagine that
this was an easy coding error to make and a hard one to spot - I
wouldn't be surprised to have similar problems elsewhere. It doesn't
bode well for automated tools.
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