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From: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof struct
Keywords: sizeof struct
Message-ID: <1814@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:33:57 GMT
References: <29722@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
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In article <29722@pbhya.PacBell.COM> afh@PacBell.COM (Alan Hobesh) writes:
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:The following c code prints the size of the definded structure to be 44,
:when compiled on an AT&T 3B20 running UNIX V5.2.1.

:However, when the code is downloaded to a PC and compiled using Turbo C,
:the size of the structure is reported to be 42.
:
:Why is there a difference and which is the correct size?


They are both correct.  The structure is padded to be word aligned.

Greg Pasquariello
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