From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 28 19: 4:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E60437B40A; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8T24Tf99103; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:04:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Cc: Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Style Wars Message-ID: <20010928190427.B98886@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010928170509.A97492@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:44:00PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:44:00PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On 28-Sep-01 David O'Brien wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:36:31PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> for 3) with an additional note about sorting so that within logical > >> >> groups > >> >> of > >> >> members, you would sort the items such that the longest types are first. > >> > > >> > Please clarify what you are saying here. > >> > >> Longest type measured as strlen(typename). :) I.e.: > > > > That is what I thought you were saying -- that breaks the rule to sort > > the members by decreasing order of `sizeof'. (which is actually has a > > functionality element of it) > > "Within logical groups of members". Please define "within logical groups of members". That is one of the things I was hoping you'd clarify. :-) > Specifying the order of things in > a struct is probably not going to be a fruitful cause, however. It is done for alignment reasons. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message