Padding a vector with 0's if it's not a multiple of 8

Question

How can I pad out a vector with 0's if it is not a multiple of 8 bytes? In the following code I work out the offset and add to the vector to make sure it always has 8 values. I would like to pad this out with 0's and I am wondering what is the most efficient way to do this.

For example:

Input: 4444

With padding: 4444000000000000

The code I have so far is:

if ((vector1.size() % 8) != 0)
{
  for (std::vector<unsigned char>::iterator itr = vector1.begin(); itr != vector1.end(); itr ++)
  {
    vector1.push_back(fmod(vector1.size(), 8));

    if(vector1.size() == 8)
      break;
  }
}

Answer 1

UPDATE: One-liner (original more readable version below):

vec.resize(vec.size() + (8 - vec.size() % 8) % 8, 0);

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Here's the code that should be quite efficient. It avoids multiple re-allocations and does nothing if no padding is needed.

const size_t nonPaddedSize = vec.size();
const size_t numPaddingElements = (8 - nonPaddedSize % 8) % 8;
if(numPaddingElements > 0)
    vec.resize(nonPaddedSize + numPaddingElements, 0);

Here's a live-example

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Note: Originally the post suggested reserve + insert, but resize will do the same in a less verbose way.