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Re: __attribute__ ((aligned)) weirdness

> So you have a field at offset 4.  You ask for it to be 4-aligned, and
> it jumps to offset 8.
> 
> What is going on?

The alignment of x means that the offset of a variable is divisible
by x with no remainder. Each y=x*2^n (where n is natural) is
a good alignment too, because f mod y = 0 => f mod x = 0;
8-aligned field is also 4-aligned. So where's the problem?

    Best regards
    Piotr Wyderski



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