title: Padded structure sent over the network
body: <p>If i have a structure like </p>
  
  <p><code>struct MixedStructure{<br>
          char a;<br>
          short b;<br>
          int c;<br>
          char d;<br>
  };</code></p>
  
  <p>Padding will come to effect.</p>
  
  <p>What I want to know, is if there is a problem sending such a structure over the network. </p>
  
  <p>I mean, this structure actually has 12 bytes (instead of 8) because of padding. If at the other end there is used another padding scheme ( or none), what would be the implications ?</p>