Re: double the buffer? - buffer overflows
From: Andrew S. (andrew-news@shaw.ca)Date: 06/22/02
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From: "Andrew S." <andrew-news@shaw.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:29:41 GMT
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:37:56 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Andrew S. wrote:
>
>> Well, following this advice I have upgraded gcc to 3.1, and low and
>> behold, nothing! I still get the compiler giving the size of 40 bytes
>> instead of 20, my question stands: Is this standard on most linux
>> computers or not?
>
> Padding data structures for byte/word alignment is a common compiler
> optimization.
k, Thanks! That's what i wanted to know.
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