Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:04:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Style Wars Message-ID: <20010928190427.B98886@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010928174400.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:44:00PM -0700 References: <20010928170509.A97492@dragon.nuxi.com> <XFMail.010928174400.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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