"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a copy of the C99 document and it is indeed required that the > locations be consecutive (though there can of course be padding for > alignment purposes if you have an array of structures). > > If you wish for me to quote chapter and verse from the document, I > will.
For the hell of it, I whipped my copy out, since I was in the mood. Indeed, if one looks at page 47 of Technical Corrigendum 2 of the C99 document, one learns that: An array type describes a contiguously allocated nonempty set of objects with a particular member object type, called the element type. Note the phrase "contiguously allocated", which is a term of art in the document meaning precisely what you think it means. There is other text that similarly requires that array members be allocated consecutively. I'll dig it out as many examples as people insist on. The original claim simply has no basis in fact. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
