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

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From: John F. Woods
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:20

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msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>> The Standard allows arbitrary padding between fields and after the
>> last field.
>Not quite; it allows padding so that the members are correctly aligned
>for their types.  It does not say anything about padding being permitted
>for any other reasons, and my interpretation is that it isn't.

Please show a strictly conforming program which can tell the difference
between "necessary" padding and "unnecessary" padding.

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