Once the extra bytes are added for referencing what will happen to these extra bytes while execution. Are these extra bytes empty or what data will be contained in them?
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Once the extra bytes are added for referencing what will happen to these extra bytes while execution. Are these extra bytes empty or what data will be contained in them?
Any help on this is appriciated. Thanks!!!
It is unspecified behavior, meaning that the compiler may put any value there, including garbage, as long as it does so consistently for all structs. The compiler doesn’t need to document to the user how it treats the padding bytes.