Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:38:46 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys gpt.h Message-ID: <20020529133846.E64995@kayak.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200205292027.g4TKRfnv031668@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200205290258.g4T2wgF83137@freefall.freebsd.org> <9551.1022648961@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020529053653.GA306@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020529173621.B11817@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020529131927.C64995@kayak.xcllnt.net> <200205292027.g4TKRfnv031668@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:27:41PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:19:27 -0700, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> said:
>
> > what's the size of struct X { int64_t a; int32_t b; };
>
> > There's no value in an answer that starts of with "It depends...".
> > The size should always be 12 bytes, independent of any alignment
> > requirements I may attach to it.
>
> The C programming language does not work that way, and has never
> worked that way.
I thought it was designed to be portable. It looks to me that not
being able to depend on such fundamental properties annihilate
the goal of portability. Even a char does not have to be 8 bits
anymore then...
I mean: sizeof(char x[20]) may then very well yield 21...
*sigh*
Ah, well... No point getting all "Don Quixote" about this...
--
Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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