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(idea) by Jargon (1.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 11:39:30

loop through = L = lord high fixer

loose bytes n.

Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.


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