Aucbvax.5607
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Sun Dec 27 13:07:56 1981
Reply to: char arrays
>From gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Sun Dec 27 12:53:53 1981
struct {
char foo[25];
int bar;
} array[10];
on a PDP-11 (for example) reserves (25+1+2)*10 bytes of storage. The +1
is required to perform word alignment (not necessary on VAX). I don't
know why your bug happened; most likely are (1) coding error or (2)
compiler bug.
Incidentally,
typedef char foo[3];
really does make "foo" a 3-byte long data type (amazing!).
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