Re: Structure size directives

[Better choice for subject, would be "struct padding ..."]

jacob navia wrote:

Since standard C doesn't provide any way for the programmer to direct the compiler as to how to layout structures, most compilers provide some way to do this, albeit in different forms.

Most C compilers? Out of how many?


Unaligned accesses to objects, should be banned. It has nothing to do with portable C code, it might trigger a core dump on non-x86 CPU.

FYI, C++:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1262.pdf

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