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Message: [QUOTE="James Kanze, post: 2990785"] [...] I seem to remember once seeing an explination by Stroustrup of why he didn't do this. I've forgotten where, and all of the details, but it did seem clear to me that the current situation is the result of a careful and reasoned decision. One may not agree with the decision (I'm not sure I do either), but there's certainly nothing unreasonable about it; it's one of those cases where there are arguments on both sides, and either choice is, in some ways, right. You certainly don't want to ban padding. That would make C++ unacceptably slow on just about every modern machine. And of course, the layout in a struct or a class in C++ has absolutely nothing to do with IO, in any way, shape, form or fashion. [/QUOTE]