This question emphasizes the use of pointers. If you assign a pointer to structure and increment it, the address would be incremented based on size of structure. Hence subtract the incremented pointer from original one.

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Interview Question for Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems:

How would you find size of structure without using sizeof operator?

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