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hi,

Please tell me why an empty Structure will occupy 2Bytes in C++

Thanks

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On my compiler it is 1 byte because that is the minimum size of any object. There is no such thing as an object that does not take up any space.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct x
{
};

int main()
{
    cout << "sizeof(x) = " << sizeof(x) << "\n";
}
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