[lights0123]

> However, if you compile on an AWS EC2 instance (as you may want to do if there is a cloud component to your fishtank), then you get a 16-byte structure because int there is 8 bytes

I'm not familiar with any OS that EC2 would offer that uses an 8-byte int. A better example might be that long is the size of a pointer on Unix and microcontroller systems, but always 4 bytes on Windows.

[kragen]

there are several dubious assertions like this in here. it says a lot of things about flash in general that are only true of nor flash but false of nand, for example