Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> Except that the compiler is not required to generate the same layout in 
> those two cases, so you would still depend on compiler-specific knowledge.

You still get subclasses. And of course there's always the hack of declaring 
a subclass. Or just using compiler-specific hackage to access the variables. 
or the infamous "#define private public". But correction noted. It's just 
irrelevant to the point I was making. :-)

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