On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:34:21 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > fwiw, i'm not convinced that "most protocols of the IETF follow this > mantra". we've had multiple discussions in different protocol groups > about shaving or bloating by a few bytes here or there in different > protocols, and i don't think anyone has brought up memory alignment as > an argument in any of the discussions i've followed. Which is sad. One would expect that this would be well understood for decades already. Jiri