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Padding structures elsewhere

Padding structures elsewhere

Posted Dec 9, 2007 23:34 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: Here's an idea by pr1268
Parent article: Memory access and alignment

By the way, in a prior life I programmed mainframes in COBOL where we used fixed-length records. Thus explaining my choice of the identifier filler. Filler padding gets interesting in COBOL when working with packed-decimal numbers (not to mention the joys of a S0C7 exception), but I digress...


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