|> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:55, Ben Pfaff wrote:
|> > 1 The typedef name intN_t designates a signed integer type with
|> > width N, no padding bits, and a two's complement
|> > representation. Thus, int8_t denotes a signed integer type
|> > with a width of exactly 8 bits.
|>
|> And arbitary alignment requirements. At least I see nothing in C99
|> saying that
|>
|> uint8_t foo;
|> uint8_t bar;
|>
|> isnt allowed to give you interesting suprises
If it's part of a structure, then yes. The C standard has always allowed
arbitrary padding between structure members. It's an ABI issue.
Andreas.
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