Re: Character arrays in structures and address alignment -- any standard?

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From: John F Carr
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 02:01

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Given this structure:

	struct x { char a[5], b[3];};

access to (struct x).b will usually be faster if the field is aligned
on a word boundary.

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    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)

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