填充的工作方式完全取决于实现.

How padding works depends entirely on the implementation.

对于具有两个字节的short和四个字节的int且类型必须与其大小倍数对齐的实现，您将具有:

For implementations where you have a two-byte short and four-byte int and types have to be aligned to a multiple of their size, you will have:

Offset  Var   Size
------  ----  ----
   0     c1      1
   1     ??      1
   2     s1      2
   4     c2      1
   5     ??      3
   8     i1      4
  12    next

无论出于何种原因，实现都可以***地在结构的字段之间插入填充，并在最后一个字段之后(但在第一个字段之前 not )插入填充.在结构后填充的能力对于对齐阵列中的后续元素很重要.例如:

An implementation is free to insert padding between fields of a structure and following the last field (but not before the first field) for any reason whatsoever. The ability to pad after a structure is important for aligning subsequent elements in an array. For example:

struct { int i1; char c1; };

可能会给您:

Offset  Var   Size
------  ----  ----
   0     i1      4
   4     c1      1
   5     ??      3
   8    next

填充通常是因为对齐数据工作更快，或者对齐数据是非法的(某些CPU体系结构不允许对齐访问).

Padding is usually done because either aligned data works faster, or misaligned data is illegal (some CPU architectures disallow misaligned access).