JargonFile/entries/loose bytes.txt

loose bytes

n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers
insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment
requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
Initial import of entries 2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00			`loose bytes`

Tidy stray s 2014-07-26 03:53:53 -04:00			`n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers`
Limit line lengths 2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00			`insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment`
			`requirements imposed by the machine architecture.`