Re: Structure Member Padding

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 15:29

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In article <1929@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> healey@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Healey) writes:
>Does ANSI C enforce any inter-member "padding" standard?? 

No.  ANSI C explicitly leaves this up to the implementation.

That's pretty well the only viable approach, since padding requirements
vary greatly.
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"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
must be changed."  -John K. Ousterhout |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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