Revision history for DevStructLayout
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The compiler aligns fields by inserting padding bytes in front of them in order to move them to an offset that corresponds to their natural boundary, or to a multiple of the value given with ##[[KeyPgField|Field = N]]##, if it is smaller than the field's natural alignment. On the x86 architecture, such proper alignment is not required but can result in better performance when accessing the fields. Other architectures might actually require proper alignment.
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The default layout of ##Type## and ##Union## structures in ""FreeBASIC"" is compatible to that of GCC, following the ""SysV"" (Linux/BSD) and Microsoft (Windows) ABIs. This allows for binary compatibility with GCC and other compilers.
The compiler aligns fields by inserting padding bytes in front of them in order to move them to an offset that corresponds to their natural boundary, or to a multiple of the value given with ##[[KeyPgField Field = N]]##, if it is smaller than the field's natural alignment. On the x86 architecture, such proper alignment is not required but can result in better performance when accessing the fields. Other architectures might actually require proper alignment.
The compiler aligns fields by inserting padding bytes in front of them in order to move them to an offset that corresponds to their natural boundary, or to a multiple of the value given with ##[[KeyPgField Field = N]]##, if it is smaller than the field's natural alignment. On the x86 architecture, such proper alignment is not required but can result in better performance when accessing the fields. Other architectures might actually require proper alignment.
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The compiler aligns fields by inserting padding bytes in front of them in order to move them to an offset that corresponds to their natural boundary, or to a multiple of the value given with ##**Field**##, if it is smaller than the field's natural alignment. On the x86 architecture, such proper alignment is not required but can result in better performance when accessing the fields. Other architectures might actually require proper alignment.
