C++ #pragma pack
c++, pragma, pragma-pack
Solution
It pushes the current `pack` setting onto a stack (so that you can restore it later via `pop`) and then sets the alignment for struct elements to 8 bytes. Anything which is not naturally aligned to an 8 byte boundary will have padding bytes inserted before it to maintain the required alignment.
Problem
What does the following statement actually do and what are it's effects? ``` #pragma pack(push,8) ```