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Can someone give me a short and plausible explanation for why the compiler adds padding to data structures in order to align its members? I know that it's done so that the CPU can access the data more efficiently, but I don't understand why this is so. And if this is only CPU related, why is a double 4 byte aligned in Linux and 8 byte aligned in Windows?
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