From: w.meissner@qut.edu.au (Wayne Meissner) Subject: Re: sizeof( struct) in DOS( borlandc) is different in GNU (linux) 11 Sep 1997 22:45:57 -0700 Message-ID: References: <3418054C.64C7@newton.dgct.ice.go.cr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jose Freddy Rojas Chavarria This wasn't exactly a gnu-win32 question, but it applies to it as well ... On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jose Freddy Rojas Chavarria wrote: > > I have a binary files recorded by a program in BorlandC for DOS, and I > can't read this file in Linux. > > The file is a colection of records of the type > struct { > char usr_id; > long info; > }T_info; You need to declare this as struct { char usr_id; long info; } __attribute__((__packed__)) T_info; (syntax is similar to this, I haven't got the info pages here with me). Or just recompile the file with -fpack-struct, but this makes all structs compiled with byte packing (including ones declared in system include files). Read the gcc info pages. --wayne - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".