Dear Sir,

In the following Structure definition,

typedef struct date
{
int dd : 5 ;           // Bit field map to 5 bits
int mm : 4 ;       // Bit field map to 4 bits
int yy ;               // Default size of 4 Bytes
} date ;

printf(  “%ld \n”, sizeof( date ) ) ;

I was thinking the result should be ( 5 + 4 + 32 ) bits = 41 bits ~ 6 Bytes. But the result of the program is 8 Bytes. Where are the additional 2 Bytes getting added to the Structure ?

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