From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help: My structure members aren't getting the right offsets!
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:19:22 -0800
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Delong wrote:

> I even made code that added up the 'sizeof' each element and got 512
> bytes, please let me know if you know whats goind wrong here (since all
> data after VBEVersion_Major is getting screwed, but before that it
> works).

The problem is that you're assuming that all of the structure members are
packed perfectly, and you can't make this assumption with ANSI C (or draft
standard C++).  The compiler may add padding as it sees fit, to optimize
(or even allow!) more efficient references to the members.

What you're looking for is the packed attribute; check the info pages.
Note that this is, by its very nature, nonstandard.

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