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IN C++ What is Memory alignment?

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IN C++ What is Memory alignment?
posted Dec 23, 2014 by Alwaz

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The term alignment primarily means the tendency of an address pointer value to be a multiple of some power of two. So a pointer with two byte alignment has a zero in the least signi_cant bit. And a pointer with four byte alignment has a zero in both the two least signi_cant bits. And so on. More alignment means a longer sequence of zero bits in the lowest bits of a pointer.

answer Dec 24, 2014 by Mohammed Hussain
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