> Hasn't GNAT sorted Ada elements in records (e.g. structures) by size > since near its initial addition to GCC in the mid-90s? This results in the > largest elements up front and minimizes the need for alignment gaps.
No, that's a serious misconception, since one of the features of GNAT is to be compatible with C by default as much as possible. But we started to do some reordering recently when the records don't have (direct) equivalents in C. -- Eric Botcazou
