Re: Good C Interview questions?

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From: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 14:52

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In article <4jv7ri$dam@solutions.solon.com>
           mholcomb@BIX.com "marty Holcomb" writes:

>Bill Wendling wrote:
> >}    Why isn't the size 2*sizeof(int)+2*sizeof(char)?
> >
> >Byte alignment?
> >
> >}    How could you decrease the size of the structure without removing
> >}    any members?
> >
> >Rearrange the elements.
> >
>Aren't these questions platform dependent?

The exact details are platform dependent. However the general approach for
minimising the structure size is widely applicable.

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