Data alignment: Straighten up and fly right

Data alignment is an important issue for all programmers who directly use memory. Data alignment affects how well your software performs, and even if your software runs at all. As this article illustrates, understanding the nature of alignment can also explain some of the “weird” behaviors of some processors.

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