On 17.10.20 14:35, Per Nordlöw wrote:
struct S { int i; bool b; }struct T {S s; // reinterpreting this as an array can only access this first element anyway char c; // so why can't this be aligned directly after `s` without any padding?}
c does come directly after s. The padding between b and c is part of s. If you don't want that padding, you can use `align(1)` to define S without padding. But then 75% of the ints in an S[] will be misaligned.
