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Re:Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5 by 8xde0wcNwpslOw on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:54PM (#17611804)
Don't quote me on this, but I think padding bytes might have different values in certain cases.
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Re:Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5 by a1369209993 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:01PM (#17611857)
I'm fairly sure it's always undefined behavior to observe those differences, so while it's possible in practice, it'd never work in theory.
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Re:Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5 by e12e on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:49PM (#17613198)
> while it's possible in practice, it'd never work in theory.

Hah, sounds like you nailed the emergent philosophy of C there... :-)

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