Code Style
janderson
askme at me.com
Sun Jun 17 00:53:19 PDT 2007
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "janderson" <askme at me.com> wrote in message
> news:f51ll5$1hv6$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Also it would be nice if you could sort properties by type, such that the
>> largest types are first, for better alignment.
>
> This is (or at least can be) done by the compiler. Class fields may be
> arbitrarily rearranged for optimal layout. Struct fields, however, are
> always in the order and alignment that you specify.
>
>
The problem is, when its done by the compiler, you have problems when
doing memory streaming operations on the data. Of course u could always
use a struct but then its still better if they are in the correct order.
-Joel
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