Structure Padding in C

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[@dono42]

Padding is not defined in the C (or C++) standard. This behavior depends on the compiler. It can also be configured too. For example, VC++ has the /Zp and #pragma pack options while GCC has -fpack-struct option.

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[@manazirahsan1351]

Ok

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trying to read how this works is way harder than having pictures and someone explaining. Thank you.

[@anshhmehta]

Perfect video to understand the importance of padding and its uses.

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Explained very detailed, Cleared every doubt. Thank you

[@andistheinforitbutso7513]

Awesome work 👏 Lesson: we should be careful while arranging the srruct variables for better memory utilisation

[@pnuema1.618]

Padding also becomes a portability issue when code is written on a system with different architecture then the architecture it is being run on. If you already knew this then my apologies. I just feel like understanding padding has more to do with writing portable code.

[@TechnoVisionTV]

Such an amazing explanation! You made it so simple to understand, thank you :)

[@ArjanvanVught]

Missing to explain __attribute__((packed)) with unaligned memory access which is possible (with ARM).

[@ivanleon6164]

#pragma pack(1)

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[@manazirahsan1351]

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[@paschikshehu7988]

1:15 not necessarily wrong, just that 1-packing is not efficient

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[@sohitgore2924]

To handle the case where the memory words are in different memory pages the processor must either verify that both pages are present before executing the instruction or be able to handle a TLB miss or a page fault on any memory access during the instruction execution. Source - Wikipedia

[@kitanowitsch]

For example, with ARM architecture (it's 8bit addressable and 32 bit accessible) engineers and programmers are encouraged to use 32 bit values all the time, so software will run faster and more secure. If memory space is critical then optimization is needed.

[@rakesh231rakesh]

It is all about time and space.

[@gamerplayer94830]

What does addressable and accessable mean? and what is the difference could you please tell? couldnt find or understand from anywhere

[@kitanowitsch]

@@gamerplayer94830 When you write and when you read from the memory, respectively. Data is written by 8 bits into the memory and read by 32 bits. So if your 8 bit data is in 4th memory part of 32bit location, it will take 4 tries to access that particular byte. That's why it is important when you declare structs and any other type of data. More speed and more secure.

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[@ashwanirajput9141]

If we declear one more "char" var outside of struct. Then memory allocation for that var is where. 1. Just after var C " 10th place ". 2. 13th place.

[@dhruvsakariya3129]

perfect example of 32byte and 64 byte difference thank you very much sir

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Very useful video...Thank you sir.please try to put more videos in advanced c topics..

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Thanks for the wonderful explanation.

[@comradepeter87]

Why is the compiler not allowed to rearrange member variables? If there's a consistent rule for this, then even external libraries will not face any ambiguity. That way, int variable could've been placed in front, and no wastage will be required and all 3 can be accessed in one CPU cycle.

[@excite236]

Have you tried enabling optimizations with your compiler?

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Good explanation on structure padding

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never thought we can optimize our code using this methods

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[@gurlinkanaveenkumar7209]

Tqu sir.

[@ahmedsiraj2758]

when declaring 3 char, it should give 4 as output, why giving 3

[@jayaprakashthokala640]

Word size is nothing but highest size of a data type used...

[@anandg4018]

because 3 char are taking 3 bytes of size within the word, and word is actually 4 bytes long thats why it is showing 4 bytes as output

[@ImtiazAhmedRatul]

The reason behind is is that all 3 chars can be accessed using 1 CPU cycle. In other words, for CPU to access char 1 will only take 1 cycle, char 2 will take 1 cycle and char 3 will take 1 cycle. Padding is introduced to save CPU cycles. Since there is no way to get fewer cycles than 1, the compiler doesn't introduce any padding. I understand your confusion. If the CPU is accessing 1 word (4 bytes) at a time, the struct should be char (1 byte + 3 padding) x 3 = 12 bytes in size. What word size the machine will use depends on the type of data it is trying to access. So if it's trying to access a char, it is using word size == 1byte. For int, it will use 4 bytes. When it sees a structure that has both, it will use the highest size (int == 4 in the video's case). In your case, it's using 1 byte for word size.

[@0mer870]

@@ImtiazAhmedRatul It seems you misunderstood his logic. He didn't say it should allocate 12 bytes but 4 which is the word size for a 32 bit processor. And since the instructor said that the processor reads one word at a time and not 1 byte, you'd except it to be always so even if it was just a char it should get allocated 4 bytes as in "1 word at a time". Therefore I think that padding applies only when the size of the variable exceeds the size of a word.

[@lawalayodeji4044]

The null character \0 is 1 byte. It is always at the end of all char or int.

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[@shreyasingh222]

Thank you so much for detailed explanation.....

[@yashikagoyal366]

It means if processor is of 64 bit Then size of the discussed structure will be 8 irrespective of the order.

[@mohamedmaged2977]

If the size of the variable is double , this means it will take 8 byte how padding will threat with it . it can not access it at the same time because word is equal to 4 bytes !

[@sudeepgour9758]

It will take double as a word size and make room for 8 Byte every time. if we take char ,int ,int *,than int , guesses the size of struct now char,int, int, int *,and int now guess again .

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[@KrupaPrarthana]

Wonderful ❤

[@learnprogam]

You forget one point. In C programming structure have not any object. struct ABC A; here A is a variable of type struct ABC.

[@botelhocpp]

I was thinking... Sure, the processor can only access a word at a time. But wouldn't it make sense to, like, displace the address of the struct a bit to access the integer? Like, in the first example... Rather than padd the first word, wouldn't be better to just add 2 to the address and access the integer right away?? Or this operation would cost too much clock-wise everytime?

[@mykun8737]

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[@Cat_Sterling]

That was just great! I was wondering about that for so long! But what is a "word" in computer architecture?

[@zidanegimiga8180]

A word must be 4 or 8 bytes long, depending on the computer architecture I guess.

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Silky smooth!

[@AlokSingh-jw8fr]

struct abc { char b; int c; char a; double e; }x; Why it's output is 24? It should be 20 as per the concept sir has taught

[@riyajoseph9261]

Hii, as the size of double is 8, word size will be taken as 8. So, for this, it'll be 1(char) + 4(int) + 3(padding) + 1(char) + 7(padding) + 8(double). That'll give the output as 24.

[@AlokSingh-jw8fr]

@@riyajoseph9261 Thanks ma'am

[@luhem_]

@@riyajoseph9261 I don't think word size will be taken as 8 ...

[@luhem_]

@@AlokSingh-jw8fr it should be like this : For 32 bit system -> char b(1byte) + padding (3bytes)+int c(4bytes)+char a(1byte)+padding(3bytes)+double e(4 + 4 bytes) = 20 bytes .

[@fidalgoverde]

Excellent job

[@nikhilwagh1728]

Great video

[@shauryakumar2229]

Very helpful thanku

[@somuseth]

4:40 Sir, does it mean that total of 3 cyles are required to access the 3 variables???

[@kumard-n9m]

Yes

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Nothing to say ! Very easy explanation.

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Life saving! Ty

[@yashikagoyal366]

Also size of struct is not fixed. It varies with the processor.

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it is very helpful

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Awsome xplanation😍

[@thienphucnguyenpham6944]

i think it would be better with CC ^^

[@rosako]

Instead of padding and wasting memory, why not just change the order to : struct abc{int b; char a; char c}?

[@yahyaaouledamer1466]

amazing thanks so much

[@EmpowerKnowledge00]

Please answer, #include Struct abc{ Int a; Char b; Int c; }var; Void main() { Printf("%d bytes", sizeof(var)); } Output : 12 bytes Whereas i am expecting the output to be "16 bytes" [4bytes(for a)+1bytes(for b)+3bytes(padding)+4bytes(for c)+4bytes(padding)] coz my system is of 64bit and word size has to be of 8bytes.

[@ayushgemini]

Although you are using 64-bit system but check the compiler specs it must be compiling for 32-bit. So (4)+(1+3)+(4) = 12 gcc -v command in cmd will tell you compiler specs

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[@andyprem]

excellent excellent explanation ..I was having an issue wstructure memebers being read incorrectly and I was suspecting this padding issue. and I was wondering how to explain this to the team .may be I should link to this vedio .. lol ;)

[@vamshimedishetty5624]

Gud explanation. Sir I have a doubt. If we declare 1000 character type data type(for eg: char a1,a2,...... a1000;) the 32 bit processor makes 1000 cycles each cycle taking of 4 bytes. As per you, memory wastage is 3000 bytes. Here, allocated memory for 1000 characters is 1000 and wasted memory is 3000 bytes. Is my answer right?

[@pradhanan9413]

No, you're wrong

[@patricktomchacko1909]

The CPU makes 250 cycles in 32 bit processor, because every cycle has 4 bytes, 250*4=1000 bytes. Why will there be any wastage, characters are declared contiguously and they take 1 byte each, so they will take 1000 bytes consecutively without leaving 3 empty cells after each character.

[@vamshimedishetty5624]

@@patricktomchacko1909 tq