Loose bytes

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loose bytes

Usage: n.

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.

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Sources

Source: loose bytes, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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