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Re: __attribute__ ((aligned)) weirdness

Piotr Wyderski writes:
 > > 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?

I need to know why this happens.

Andrew.
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