Define how inheritance affects storage

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William Entriken 2018-11-14 22:55:19 -05:00 committed by chriseth
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- If an elementary type does not fit the remaining part of a storage slot, it is moved to the next storage slot.
- Structs and array data always start a new slot and occupy whole slots (but items inside a struct or array are packed tightly according to these rules).
For contracts that use inheritance, the ordering of state variables is determined by the
C3-linearized order of contracts starting with the most base-ward contract. If allowed
by the above rules, state variables from different contracts do share the same storage slot.
.. warning::
When using elements that are smaller than 32 bytes, your contract's gas usage may be higher.
This is because the EVM operates on 32 bytes at a time. Therefore, if the element is smaller