One of the uses of structs is that if you know how data is held in memory you can deal with a struct as a block of memory. This is useful if you have a hardware device that is mapped into memory, where different memory locations refer to values controlling or returning values from the device. One way to access the device would be to define a struct that matches the memory layout of the device's direct memory access to C++ types. Further, structs are also useful for files, or for packets of data that need to be transmitted over the network: you manipulate the struct and then copy the memory occupied by the struct to the file or to the network stream.
The members of the struct are arranged in memory in the order that they ...
