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J. Kanze (kanze@gabi-soft.fr) wrote:
: (Concerning the last, consider the following:

: 	struct X { int i ; char c ; } ;
: 	X				x ;
: 	char			c[ 3 ] ;

: On my system, sizeof( X ) == 8, as does sizeof( x ).  And of course,
: sizeof( c ) == 3.  Curiously, however, the two variables only take up a
: total of 8 bytes; in this particular case, the physical sizeof x is 5,
: and not 8.  This is a perfectly legal, and frequent, implementation.)

Are you sure about this?  Considering X is a POD, what if the
programmer has coded:

	memset(&x, 0, sizeof(X));

somewhere in their program?  Or does this produce undefined
behaviour?
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