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From: max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com (Erik Max Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Determining proper sizeof a struct
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 18:18:57 PST
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gt7010a AT prism DOT gatech DOT edu (Ojas Parekh) writes:

> This program prints a value of 148 for sizeof(ulfrec) under both
> DJGPPV2 and DJGPP 1.12m4, but the value should be 146.
> Compiled under BC 3.1, this same program reports 146 for
> sizeof(ulfrec) as it should.  Is there something about gcc/DJGPP
> data types that I am not aware of?  Thanks.

"Should be"?  By what argument do you figure that?

The ANSI C standard makes no guarantee that all members of a struct 
will be contiguous; there may be some padding (extra unused space) 
here and there for efficiency sake; in many cases, on many 
architectures, it's more efficient to access data of one type than 
another.

There's an attribute you can use to force DJGPP to completely pack all 
members of the structure; search through the info files under gcc for 
"attribute" and you should uncover it.


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