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The Only Natural Alignment Is Byte Alignment

The Only Natural Alignment Is Byte Alignment

Posted May 16, 2012 12:15 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: The Only Natural Alignment Is Byte Alignment by amonnet
Parent article: Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI

Sure, but all the fields' positions are still explicitly specified independently of any alignment concerns. I.e. the fields may have been constructed with regard for alignment, however the protocol doesn't depend on any alignment concerns.


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