[issue7355] Struct incorrectly compiles format strings

[Steve Krenzel]

Steve Krenzel <sgk284 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Just for clarification, why does "ci" get padded but "ic" doesn't? 
While I agree that updating the documentation would help clarify, 
perhaps either everything should be padded to word boundaries or 
nothing should.

It is weird behavior that "ic" != "ci". If both formats were 8 bytes 
then my first thought would have been "Oh, it's just getting padded", 
but with this inconsistency it appeared as a bug.

Whatever the reason behind this discrepancy is, it should definitely be 
included in the doc updates.

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