[LCP]struct size

[Keith Schincke]

I think the answer is: Word alignment. The ammount of alignment depends on
the platforam I think. The details are pretty interesting if you can find them.

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Srinath Thiruvengadam wrote:

> hello all,
>
> please see this code
>
> struct somestruct
> {
>  int a;
>  char b;
>  char c;
> }stvar;
>
> int main()
> {
>   printf("%d",sizeof(stvar));
> }
>
> the o/p is 8.  i was expecting 6 as 'a' occupies 4 bytest and 'b','c'
> one byte each !  how is it 8 ??
>
> Thanks,
> Srinath
>

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