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are statically allocated structs always aligned to a machine word on x86/x86_64?
- From: john smith <wempwer at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:39:26 +0200
- Subject: are statically allocated structs always aligned to a machine word on x86/x86_64?
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I didn't find any information about alignment requirements for
statically allocated objects in GCC and x86-64 manual (or I have
missed because the manual is huge). I noted that sometimes variables
such as int are not aligned on word boundary in x86 and x86_64 but I
have never seen a struct that wouldn't be allocated at address that
isn't a multiple or 4/8. I am asking this question because I would
like to know whether it's safe to assume that struct will be always
assigned at a word boundary and therefore it's possible to correctly
calculate a struct size without running a program.
This question was first asked here
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2015-08/msg00015.html but I was
told to ask it on GCC ml.
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