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Writing memory efficient C structs

by Tom Scheers tomscheers.github.io published 2025-07-299 min read

A struct in C is the best way to organize your data so that you can easily use the data later in your program. However, there are a few caveats to C structures, mainly how their memory works. Note that I’m making a lot of assumptions about type sizes and standards. These can differ between systems and ABI’s, so for…
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