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User talk:Belal/Memory research
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Notes, string alignment[edit]
"the ints are two bytes each, yet the string starts at offset 0x8, implying something in it requires four-byte alignment" - in almost all cases, pointers are aligned to 32-bit boundaries; failure to align a pointer could result in either significant performance degradation or an outright crash (depending on the CPU in question), so all sane compilers force them to be DWORD-aligned. Also, the integer types are almost certainly "short", as "int" is almost always 32 bits wide. --Quietust 22:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)