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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by Gibbon1 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:13PM (#42857353)
The memory layout is the ABI not the language spec.
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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by jjmarr on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:21AM (#42866941)
The language spec for C constrains the memory layout of a struct. From 6.7.3.2.7 of the draft spec:

> a structure is a type consisting of a sequence of members, whose storage is allocated in an ordered sequence, (emphasis added)

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3220.pdf

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