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• loose bytes: n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or {shim}s many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Machine Coders do it in bytes.
• him n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
  For example, the PDP-11 Unix linker, in split I&...
• him: n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
  For example, the PDP-11 UNIX linker, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer)....
• green bytes n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• So many bytes, so few cps.
• Commonwealth Hackish n. Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.
  S., esp. in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like `char' and `soc', etc....
• little-endian: adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first').
  The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian....