On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:51:35PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Junichi Uekawa] > > You can add members at the end of struct if and only if any other > > application does not try to malloc it. > > Both malloc and static variables will be a problem. Examples of bad > interface: > Isn't it true that you can only safely add onto the end of a struct on i386? Since the stack is allocated backwards on ppc, wouldn't adding to the end of the struct still break old clients? Also, if you don't have it now, you should reserve a little bit of struct for future changes, usually a few longs will do for a long time. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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