Compaq COBOL AAQ2G1FTK - Manual (Page 529)

Managing Memory and Data Access
16.4 Using Alignment Directives, Qualifiers, and Flags
3. These three pad bytes bring FLD3 up to:
16 = 4*4 bytes
4. The total number of bytes in the record is now:
36 = 12 + 8 + 16 bytes
5. *, p, f apply in the same way as for /ALIGN without PADDING.
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