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Article #5060Question about unions
From: Walter Murray
Date: Wed, 25 May 1988 18:56
Date: Wed, 25 May 1988 18:56
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Section 3.5.2.1 of the January draft, after permitting holes in structure objects, goes on to say, "There may also be unnamed padding at the end of a structure, as necessary to achieve the appropriate alignment were the structure to be a member of an array." Is there any reason a similar statement is not made about unions? Section 3.3.3.4 (the sizeof operator) certainly implies that a union may have padding. Walter Murray
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllz2!walter From: walter@hpcllz2.HP.COM (Walter Murray) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Question about unions Message-ID: <16490002@hpcllz2.HP.COM> Date: 25 May 88 18:56:00 GMT Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab Lines: 12