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From: Christian Froeschlin <froesccn@cip.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/02
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Date: 1997-07-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> suppose that type T is a struct with a double field and an int 
> field. The size of this struct would be 12 bytes, but its 
> alignment requirement is 8, so it would not be possible to laout 
> the array b without alignment gaps???

Why would the alignment requirement be 8 ? On such a system
an implementation would probably pad the struct (which is allowed),
so sizeof(T) would be 16. 

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