Data structure alignment: Difference between revisions

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Requesting that the ''MixedData'' structure above be aligned to a one byte boundary will have the compiler discard the pre-determined alignment of the members and no padding bytes would be inserted.

While there is no standard way of defining the alignment of structure membermembers, some compilers use ''#pragma'' directives to specify packing inside source files. Here is an example:

#pragma pack(push) /* push current alignment to stack */