C standards and committees (was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from)

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Mon May 23 17:36:07 CDT 2016


On May 20, 2016, at 8:58 PM, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
> 
> Now, it may sound cavalier of me, but of the three compilers I use at
> work (gcc, clang, Solaris Sun Works thingy) I know how to get them to layout
> the structs exactly as I need them

You can do this in Common Lisp too, though. It sounds more like the way C lets you represent the hardware matches closely with how you think about the hardware.

  -- Chris



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