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struct abc{
char a;
char b;
char c;
};

what is sizeof (struct abc) in gcc ?

it is giving 3, why not 4 bytes.

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Member Avatar for DJSAN10

Why are you expecting it to be 4 bytes? 3 characters, 1 byte each , total 3 bytes.

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He's expecting the compiler it to align all instances of this structure to 4-byte boundaries via padding. I'm not entirely sure if this should actually change the value returned by sizeof().

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He's expecting the compiler it to align all instances of this structure to 4-byte boundaries via padding. I'm not entirely sure if this should actually change the value returned by sizeof().

It should.

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