struct curiosity

[Richard Brodie]

"pjcoup" <pjcoup at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I would have expected calcsize('BhhhhB') to be either 10 or 12
> (padding), but 11?  Is there a simple explanation of what is going
> on here?

The purpose of the padding is to align the words 'naturally'.
That is, when reading two bytes, to start at an even number.

B   X         B   h1
h1  h1        h1  h2
h2  h2        h2  h3
h3  h3        h3  h4
h4  h4        h4  B
B   Y

The padding at X lines up h1-h4. There isn't any point
putting padding at Y.