Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Structure Member Padding
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.152959.336@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1929@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 90 15:29:59 GMT

In article <1929@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> healey@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Healey) writes:
>Does ANSI C enforce any inter-member "padding" standard?? 

No.  ANSI C explicitly leaves this up to the implementation.

That's pretty well the only viable approach, since padding requirements
vary greatly.
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