Re: packed structures

[Andreas Degert <ad at papyrus dot hamburg dot com>]

"Tom Stokes" <tstokes@pacbell.net> writes:

> The size of this structure is 12 which is wrong. What am I missing?
[...]

try the following (compile and execute or compile to .s):

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typedef struct HeaderTag 
{
  unsigned long   HeaderLength;
  char            PackingType __attribute__ ((packed));
  unsigned short  NumRows __attribute__ ((packed));
  unsigned short  PackedSize __attribute__ ((packed));
} __attribute__ ((packed)) HeaderType;

#define offset(f) (int)&(((HeaderType*)0)->f)

int main(void)
{
  printf("%d,%d,%d,%d\n",offset(PackingType),offset(NumRows),
	 offset(PackedSize),sizeof(HeaderType));
  return 0;
}
--------------------------------------------

Notice the added attribute after the closing brace. Without that the
whole structure is padded with 3 additional bytes.

ciao

Andreas
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