If i have a structure like 

`struct MixedStructure{  

 char a;  

 short b;  

 int c;  

 char d;  

};`

Padding will come to effect.

What I want to know, is if there is a problem sending such a structure over the network. 

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 ?