c doughts

[saranathan]

what is the padding in c?

[Silent1Mezzo]

what is the padding in c?

This should go in the Forums not in the articles

[weaknessforcats]

I am moving this to the C/C++ Forum.

Padding is a term applied to the alignment of the variables in your code. Most compilers align on an int boundary. If you have a struct:

struct test
{
     int a;
     char b;
     int c;
};
 

the compiler will align the ints on an int boundary. To do that, three pad bytes will be inserted after member b. Normally, you need no worry about padding as it is handled internally by the compiler.

[Silent1Mezzo]

struct test
{
     int a;
     char b;
     int c;
};
 

It's also the reason why:

sizeof(test) != sizeof(a) + sizeof(b) + sizeof(c) 

[weaknessforcats]

It's also the reason why:

Code: ( c )
sizeof(test) != sizeof(a) + sizeof(b) + sizeof(c)

Yep. I remember when I first did that. To quote Bugs Bunny, "Nyah, it don't add up, doc".

[abhielementx786]

how much space does an object in c++ eats up when it is declared/initialised?[/b]

[weaknessforcats]

[quote=abhielementx786]

how much space does an object in c++ eats up when it is declared/initialised?
[/qoute]
The same as a struct since classes are implemented as a struct. The one difference is that if the struct/class contains a virtual function, the object will contain the address of the virtual function table. In this case the C++ object is larger by the sizeof a pointer.