loose bytes

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.

Nearby terms:

LOOPN ♦ LOOPS ♦ loop through ♦ loose bytes ♦ LOP ♦ lord high fixer ♦ Lore

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