Un-alignment in structures [mild flame]

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

> You say what galls you is the unnecessary padding on the VAX C,
> what galls me more is the otherwise simple programs that won't
> re-compile on our 3B5 cuz people played foot-loose and fancy-free
> with the VAX's liberalness with alignment. Typical bad idiom:
> 
> P.S. Yes I know how to fix this by padding the sp->length to an even size.
> Just tired of doing it, and even that is not safe for all machines.

Congratulations, your example has nothing whatsoever to do with what I
was talking about.