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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portablity using structures and malloc - Help
Message-ID: <5181@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 20:36:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.5181
Posted: Fri Jul 26 20:36:19 1985
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References: <81@drux1.UUCP> <907@umcp-cs.UUCP> <4772@allegra.UUCP> <257@bocklin.UUCP>
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Xref: linus net.unix:4561 net.lang.c:5269
Summary: bit field vs. char

In article <257@bocklin.UUCP>, wendt@bocklin.UUCP writes:
> An easy way to determine alignment requirements is to take the size
> of a structure containing one character.  Odd-length structures are
> invariably rounded up to convenient units by the compiler.

Or, preferably,
	#define ALIGNMENT (sizeof (struct { char :1;}))
which avoids having to make up a name for a structure element.
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