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At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly:
> Sending binary data, even endian neutral, can be dangerous. For instance, 
> in C, the following structure indicates the problem.

Am I counting wrong?

> struct {
> 	char a;   /* 1 byte */
> 	long b;   /* 8 bytes */
> };
> The size of the struct on a 32 bit CISC system might be 9 bytes, but on a 
> 32 bit RISC would be 8 bytes long, because field b must be aligned on a 32 
> bit boundary.

How does one fit 9 bytes into 8 bytes?  Wouldn't it have to be 12
bytes?

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