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Re: Padding involved

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Padding involved
Date 2014-04-14 15:37 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
> (snip)
>>> (* Or should that be "every"?  Neither sounds exactly correct.)
>  
>> Here "each" is better.  The reason is the alignments in the
>> different cases are not the same but depend on the member.
>> Compare, for example,
>  
>>    "Every student worked on the class project."
>  
>> and
>  
>>    "The professor will grade the homeworks of each student."
>  
>> In the first case we say "every student" because they were all
>> working as a group.  
>
> But "every" also implies that no-one was left out, such as being
> sick on those days. 

This is a minor point, and getting off-topic, but ...

> Could one have addressed that by stating the struct's alignment
> must be a positive integer multiple of each* member's alignment?
>
> (* Or should that be "every"?  Neither sounds exactly correct.)

The phrase "every member's alignment" could imply that the members,
as a group, have an alignment that they share.  The phrase "each
member's alignment" more clearly implies that each member has its
own individual alignment, and that the struct's alignment is a
positive integer multiple of the first member's alignment *and*
of the second member's alignment *and* ....

It's not a very strong implication either way, and it would take a
perverse reading to interpret "every" in the way I suggested, but
I find "each" clearer and more precise than "every" in this context.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
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Padding involved anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 13:13 -0800
  Re: Padding involved jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-03-07 22:17 +0100
  Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-07 16:26 -0500
    Re: Padding involved anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 13:49 -0800
      Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-07 18:11 -0500
        Re: Padding involved anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 15:19 -0800
          Re: Padding involved Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2014-03-07 16:26 -0700
            Re: Padding involved anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 15:41 -0800
              Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-07 18:50 -0500
            Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-08 00:10 +0000
              Re: Padding involved Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2014-03-08 09:27 -0700
          Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-07 16:24 -0800
            Re: Padding involved anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 16:45 -0800
              Re: Padding involved Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-08 01:03 +0000
                Re: Padding involved David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2014-03-28 06:11 -0400
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-28 18:45 +0000
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-28 15:23 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-28 12:40 -0700
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-28 21:19 +0000
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-28 17:07 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-28 18:25 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-28 21:15 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-29 01:03 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 14:23 -0700
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-30 01:43 +0000
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-28 21:32 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-03-28 21:59 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-29 00:46 -0500
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-29 08:51 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-29 08:57 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-30 18:53 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-30 20:25 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-31 11:34 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-31 11:27 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-31 11:36 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-31 19:14 +0000
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-31 15:43 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-01 03:12 +0300
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-04-03 00:45 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-29 13:02 -0500
                Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-29 14:44 -0400
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 19:49 +0000
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-30 19:12 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-31 16:20 -0500
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-31 17:53 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-01 03:22 +0300
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-04-04 14:36 -0500
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-04-04 17:33 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-14 13:46 -0700
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-14 22:00 +0000
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-04-14 15:37 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-17 09:11 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-14 13:25 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-29 00:57 -0700
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-29 08:57 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-29 14:18 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-30 12:02 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-30 19:35 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-14 12:54 -0700
                Re: Padding involved Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 14:44 -0700
                Re: Padding involved glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 03:50 +0000
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-29 09:02 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-29 13:19 -0500
                Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-28 21:21 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-28 15:27 -0400
                Re: Padding involved Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-28 19:54 +0000
                Re: Padding involved Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-03-28 15:02 -0500
          Re: Padding involved Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-08 00:43 +0000
          Re: Padding involved Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-07 20:20 -0500
    Re: Padding involved anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 13:49 -0800
  Re: Padding involved James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-07 16:46 -0500
  Re: Padding involved "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-07 21:59 +0000
    Re: Padding involved anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 14:34 -0800
      Re: Padding involved "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-07 23:59 +0000
    Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-07 15:15 -0800
      Re: Padding involved "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-08 10:08 +0000
        Re: Padding involved Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-08 12:39 +0000
        Re: Padding involved Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-08 14:03 -0800
  Re: Padding involved Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-03-08 09:01 -0800

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