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		TheZenPsycho on Jan 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Lost Art of C Structure Packing The offsets of code and data blocks are already undetermined before linking. Even if the algorithm is non-deterministic, what's stopping the optimisation from not running until link time?

RogerL on Jan 2, 2014 [–]

sizeof (foo) would not be known until link time.

static_assert(sizeof(foo)==64, "you didn't align foo correctly") would not be possible.

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