Property discussion wrap-up

TommiT tommitissari at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 30 14:48:10 PST 2013


On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 22:41:23 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> The problem of using empty struct variables is that they take 
>> up memory.
>> They have to, because you can make a pointer to a variable and 
>> then you
>> can dereference that variable. There has to be at least a byte 
>> of memory
>> to dereference.
>>
>
> No, that is not why. The only conceivable reason empty structs 
> take up space is so that different instances have different 
> addresses.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up.



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