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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:09:53 +0000
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c padding problem
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an unnamed structure is not equivalent to laying down its members
in the containing thing. it's equivalent to a field of that structure type with a name that
does not occur anywhere else, and subject to the same rules.
it's not intended for data layout but in general to avoid flatulent guff like
	u.s1.s2.u.s3.fred