memory alignment of a struct

[anantwakode]

Hi,

e.g

struct foo
{
char ch1;
};

struct soo
{
char ch2;
};

see if I create objects
foo f;
soo s;

memory structure...may be like this

| f.ch1,s.ch2 | | |

may some cpu instructions have to filterout/Ignore (will need extra work to do to leave s.ch2 untouched ) s.ch2 while processing f.ch1 as the most of the instructions are developed to read/work on words at a time


if these are aligned

|f.ch1 |s.ch2 | |

can be fetched and processed seprately .................



-Anant