Order of object fields
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 14:31:03 UTC 2022
On 1/27/22 8:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 January 2022 at 12:45:20 UTC, frame wrote:
>> Is the order of fields guaranteed returned by `.tupleof` and
>> `__traits(getMember,...)`, can I rely on this? I know that are
>> different things, I mean just per each use case if I have more
>> functions that traverses through all fields. Thx.
>
> Not for classes. The compiler is free to reorder if it wants to.
>
> Yes for structs.
To clarify, the compiler can reorder the members to fit them better. But
it will be the same order for any particular build of the object files.
Any compile-time features that fetch the members should be in the same
order as the compiler has decided to lay them out. It's just that it
might not match the source code order.
-Steve
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