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For questions about the implementation or design of data structures as specifically relevant to programming language design or implementation. Generic data structure questions are off-topic.
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Distinguishing classes from structures
Some languages have a concept of classes separately than structs. In C++ the only difference is whether the members are public or private by default. This seems redundant. Why have a separate class ke …
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Would a structure ever require padding beyond what is required to align the members?
In C a structure can have an arbitrary amount of padding. In theory this implementation conforms to the C standard:
struct X {
int x;
// 1000000000 bytes padding
};
// sizeof(struct X) == 1000 …
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What are the implications of a 'packed' keyword/feature?
I am bothered by the fact that, in C, struct types can be arbitrarily large. We have no control over their memory layout except for the fact that the first member is always at the beginning of the mem …
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