Alignment is handled in two parts. The alignment needed by the struct
which depends on the types of the field within the struct and the
compiler alignment setting. A struct that only needs 2 byte alignment
will be two byte aligned, not eight byte aligned. The type double needs
eight byte alignment, hence the default of 8 byte in the compiler.

If the alignment required is 4 and the compiler alignment is 2, then the
structure will be two byte aligned. Get the idea? The alignment used is
the lesser of the two values.

--
Norman Black
Stony Brook Software

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:09:17 -0700, "Norman Black" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:


Yes, you´re right. I had the wrong notion about alignment.

Robert S.