The Lost Art of Structure Packing
see also
- Writing memory efficient C structs - No mention of pahole / dwarves? lwn It’s the standard tool used by the Linux kernel developers. - HN
- Poke-a-hole and friends - is an object-file analysis tool to find the size of the data structures, and the holes caused due to aligning the data elements to the word-size of the CPU by the compiler.
Written on March 20, 2019, Last update on April 12, 2025
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