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Data Representation/Byte Ordering

Character constants should only contain one character because of differences in portability; a string literal may be used instead.

Avoid hard-coding offsets into structures. The alignment of structure members is implementation dependent. The pre-defined "offsetof" macro should be used to determine structure member offset. [*]

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