> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:29:21 -0600 (CST)
> From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>

> > I hope nobody minds an occasional "char pad[]" much.
> > They also make memory dumps in ddb easier to read...
> 
> Well, I don't particularly like them, but I don't have a better
> suggestion, either.  The only thing that I can imagine at the moment is
> that we teach gcc to align on longword boundaries by default... which, at
> first glance, doesn't appear tremendously difficult.
> 
> --scott

There are also compatibility problems with third-party libraries
if we change the default struct alignment rules.  Can of worms...
Explicit structure padding is the easiest alternative.

Gordon