For x86 and XMD64. What about arm, Mips, Sparc, alpha, whatever what in the IBM mainframes... All of the above have C compilers and each does something different. I don't know the rules for each, but I know some of them have really weird rules in specific cases.
You misunderstand. In context of the grandparent: all the world is NOT x86/AMD64. there are many other processes with many different rules. That his code works on the above two doesn't mean it will on the others.
I took care to mention that x86 is not the only platform, and to what extent they're relevant. I also made sure to not specifically answer as if this is only for x86. I don't know why you're willingly misinterpreting what I said. It's quite frustrating, especially after I took care to not answer as if x86 were the only platform.
I asked you why you're asking about specifics here in a querying conversational, when you can just search the internet and be given the specific answers immediately.
Because you're asking me to reply again, I'll go ahead and answer your question for you: all of those platforms are the same as far as padding/alignment for char is concerned. But just to reiterate, I was careful to not require this kind of knowledge for my replies to make sense.
I don't work with them, but their are weird systems with non 8 but bytes. I don't even know what they are, but every time this comes up in committee those compiler writers speak up
