4 docs tagged with "padding"

Every type has an alignment: an address it must start on, always a power of two. char can live

This page explains how the class features you write — members, virtual functions, inheritance —

Data arranged at addresses that are multiples of its size. Required for correctness on some architectures, critical for performance on all.

This page is the low-level / ABI view: how padding affects a struct's on-the-wire byte layout,