Re: immediate strings #2

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I don't know any C compiler able to allocate unions at the bit level,
> It can't since it's not a bitfield (which isn't possible anyway).

Not that it's relevant to Emacs, but I don't know which part of the
C standard would force a C compiler to layout all unions at an
"addressable" offset.  I mean, wouldn't it be valid for a compiler to
analyze the whole program and decide "oh, the code uses the union in
such a way that I can bit-align it to save some padding space and noone
will notice"?


        Stefan