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On Monday, May 14, 2012 11:21:21 AM UTC-4, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
> 
> Why would it?
> 
> When dealing with 3 consecutive byte arguments, I don't see any reason
> to store them as int-sized values on the stack, on both i386-derived
> platforms.
> 

I doubt most compilers would misalign the stack to save a couple bytes of RAM, but i suppose anything is possible.  Personally I have never seen this, but I would be interested in seeing an example.

-sb