this is indeed somewhat lost. i learned it from coding standards at one place a long time ago... but since then I've had to explain it x number of times to juni

this is indeed somewhat lost. i learned it from coding standards at one place a long time ago... but since then I've had to explain it x number of times to juniors to the point where I wrote an article to point them at instead: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/know-your-cc-struct-layout-rules.html http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/know-your-cc-struc...