Order of storage inside a structure / object
Consider these two cases : struct customType { dataType1 var1; dataType2 var2; dataType3 var3; } ; customType instance1; // Assume var1, var2 and var3 were initialized to some valid values. customType * instance2 = &instance1; dataType1 firstMemberInsideStruct = (dataType1)(*instance2); class CustomType { public: dataType1 member1; dataType2 member2; retrunType1 memberFunction1(); private: dataType3 member3; dataType4 member4; retrunType2 memberFunction2(); }; customType object; // Assume member1, member2, member3 and member4 were initialized to some valid values. customType *pointerToAnObject