> /* When compiled with Pacific C, this program prints:
>    size is 4
>    Yuck! */

ac> It also prints 'size is 4' with Borland C++ for DOS 3.1 when compiled with 
ac> the -a switch.

Crikey!  I've never seen that before.  Padding at the end of a structure
that contains only character variables!  Anyway, I looked up the standard,
and an implementation is allowed to pad between any structure members, plus
at the end, and there is no exception for char-only variables.  You know
what that means, don't you?  You have to read data from a file as a pure
character buffer, you can't put it into structures.  :-(  Damn!  Oh well,
time to change my habits.  BFN.  Paul.
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