Here's another example.
struct example
{
int a;
char b;
int c;
}
Now if a variable of type example is declared then
(considering base address as 2000)
a gets : 2000 to 2003
b gets : 2004
c gets : 2005 to 2008 ? NO
It gets 2008 to 2011. The bytes from 2005 to 2007 (3 bytes) are padded in
this case.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Aman Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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