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From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (Bruce Szablak)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Size of structure containing char fields
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Date: 17 Jul 90 14:29:50 GMT
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Given a structure that contains only char fields (possibly unsigned):

	struct example1 { char a, b, c; };

is ANSI restrictive enough [;-)] to force sizeof(example1) to be 3?

Is anyone aware of existing compilers for which this wouldn't be true?

Is there a portability problem with the following structure where the
array is intended to support a variable length array?

	struct example2 { char a, b, c[1]; };

Thanks in advance.