I don’t get what you’re saying - what’s underhanded about saying structure packing can have unexpected results across platforms, architectures, compilers and ev

I don’t get what you’re saying - what’s underhanded about saying structure packing can have unexpected results across platforms, architectures, compilers and even compiler flags? The point is that you could only ever say for sure what the answer will be if all that is exactly specified, otherwise your assumption could be wrong.