C Programming help .....wtf ?!?!

[Ben Duncan]

Why does the sizeof( struct _dummymenu) on the below
return 8 ?


   typedef struct _dummymenu
        {
        char d_char ;
        int d_sumnumber ;
        } DummyMenu ;

Yet if I do one a structure like this:

typedef struct _dummymenu
        {
        char a_char ;
        char b_char ;
        char c_char ;
        } DummyMenu ;

it returns 3 ......

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