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Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats?

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats?
Date 2016-08-08 08:56 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> On 08/08/16 08:15, Test wrote:
[...]
>> I am using GCC
>
> If that matters, you need to be asking in a gcc group. And if it doesn't 
> matter, it doesn't matter.

True -- but this is a great place to ask whether it matters or not.
Mentioning which compiler you're using doesn't hurt; it's better than
leaving that information out and later finding that it's relevant.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
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Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Test <test@.nil.invalid.com> - 2016-08-08 10:15 +0300
  Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-08 19:36 +1200
    Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-08-08 08:52 +0100
  Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-08-08 08:51 +0100
    Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-08 11:29 +0100
    Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-08 08:56 -0700
  Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-08-08 01:37 -0700
  Re: Structure packing & padding: what sizeof reports? Any caveats? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-08-08 11:17 -0400

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