My inclination is towards maintainability over space. Others may disagree of course.
-- Luke >From: Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: structure packing, alignment, etc. >To: OpenLDAP Devel <[email protected]> >Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 00:28:31 -0700 > >Anyone giving any thought to structure alignment issues in slap.h? Many >of the structs will have a fair amount of wasted space on a machine with >64 bit pointers but 32 bit ints. Likewise for stack usage with local >variables in most of the code. On past projects I've used rules like >"always declare variables in size order, largest first" but here we seem >to have things clustered by purpose. > >-- > -- Howard Chu > Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc > OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/ > --
