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diff --git a/docs/miscellaneous.rst b/docs/miscellaneous.rst index 8cc52c8f..7e4385bd 100644 --- a/docs/miscellaneous.rst +++ b/docs/miscellaneous.rst @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ Statically-sized variables (everything except mapping and dynamically-sized arra declaring your storage variables in the order of ``uint128, uint128, uint256`` instead of ``uint128, uint256, uint128``, as the former will only take up two slots of storage whereas the latter will take up three. + + .. note:: + The layout of state variables in storage is considered to be part of the external interface + of Solidity due to the fact that storage pointers can be passed to libraries. This means that + any change to the rules outlined in this section is considered a breaking change + of the language and due to its critical nature should be considered very carefully before + being executed. + The elements of structs and arrays are stored after each other, just as if they were given explicitly. |