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  3. September 2002

Re: Contiguous file fields not so in program storage (was: Pointer based arrays)

Hans Boldt wrote:
>
> How much space is being wasted?  Taking alignment considerations
> into account, the overhead on average is probably just a couple of
> bytes per standalone field or data structure.
>

In case Hans' statement is alarming, alignment only applies to fields
that have alignment considerations (*, I, U, F types).  And the system
does seem to align data structures.

But it seems to me that forcing fields to be contiguous by coding them
in a data structure would tend to conserve storage, not waste it.

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