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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: more sizeof questions
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 18:39:38 -0700
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John Fortin wrote:

> OK, I'm a bit confused..(nothing new i'm afraid)... The structure
> below was taken from the VESA 1.2 spec. sizeof(_VGAInfoBlock) should
> be 256.  DJGPP gives 260.  What's up with this.

This is an ANSI C question, not a DJGPP one.  Structure padding is allowed in
ANSI C, and the way it is done is implementation-dependent.  Attempting to use
a structure to represent data like this is inherently
implementation-dependent.  You should be manipulating one member at a time.

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