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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
loose bytes
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shim s many compilers
insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment
requirements imposed by the machine architecture.