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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:50:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com>
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Subject: Programming Question
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I feel really silly having to ask this.

Why does my sizeof(mystruct) come out as 4 instead of 3 ( short + char ) ?

	struct {
	   short	shortvariable;
	   char		charvariable;
	} mystruct;

	sizeof(mystruct) == 4

Thanks





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