structs vs classes

[Peter Alexander]

On 29/01/11 9:36 PM, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> Patrick Kreft <patrick_kreft at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:45:41 +0100, Tomek Sowiński <just at ask.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Jim napisał:
>>>
>>>> I'm only discussing the heap/stack difference.
>>>
>>> Classes with value semantics would be prone to the slicing problem.
>>>
>>
>> That is because of the type system not classes or value semantic cause
>> of that.
>
> Really? How would I go about stuffing a 16-byte class instance into the
> 8 bytes allocated on the stack, anyway?
>

I believe his point is that you can't, and the type system shouldn't 
allow it (as it does in C++).