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A comment on The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018). Parent comment

Re:The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by flyingfences on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:08AM (#23006560)
Isn't that the _definition_ of a 32-bit (or 64-bit or 8-bit or however-many-bit) - that 32 bits is the length of a pointer?
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Re:The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by saagarjha on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:12PM (#23013737)
Certain strange platforms (arm64_32 for Apple Watch) run ILP32 on AArch64.
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