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• 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.
• 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...
• Soldiers do it with a machine gun.
• All the world's a VAX, And all the coders merely butche
  They have their exits and their entrails; And one int in his time plays many widths, His sizeof being N bytes....
• Real programmers never eat at restaurants. If the vending machine sells it, they eat it.
  If it doesn't, they don't. Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches, either....
• demogroup n. [demoscene] A group of demo (sense 4) composers.
  Job titles within a group include coders (the ones who write programs), graphicians (the ones who painstakingly pixelate the fine art), musicians (the music composers), sysops, traders/swappers (the ones who do the trading and other PR), and organizers (in larger groups)....