@nikhil:So what u mean is that if i have:
struct{
int a;
char b[5];
};
the size of this struct's node will be 12 not 9.., to make it a multiple of 4??
On 7/26/11, Nikhil Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Padding is not a topic of self referential structure.
>
> Padding means that extra spaces of memory are used by the compiler to
> allocate memory. This is done to have the memory address as a multiple of
> the size of the variable. This speeds up the processing of these variables
> by the compiler.
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Puneet Gautam
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> what is meant by padding in self_referenced structure?
>> Is it always necessary?
>>
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