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Subject: Re: Designated initializers, struct randomization and addressing?
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As a tangential party, I am a bit curious: does the randomization
plugin result in a compact structure?  I ask because I know many/most
programmers don't bother with it and so doing so ought to make the
data more compact.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> how is the code to be verified so that
>> any use of things like offsetof and any
>> address/indexing is not impacted?