yes this will be the case.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Puneet Gautam <[email protected]>wrote:

> @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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