Hi Viresh,
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:52 AM Viresh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> The structure will get aligned to the size of largest element and each
> element will be aligned to itself. I don't see how this will break
> even in case of 32/64 bit communication.
Structures are not aligned to the size of the largest element, but
to the largest alignment needed for each member.
This can be smaller than the size of the largest element.
E.g. alignof(long long) might be 4, not 8. And m68k aligns to
two bytes at most.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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