Structure and sizeof mis-behaving

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From: Chris
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 03:05

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I found out why my DIB to bitmap function isn't working...
CBuilder6 is reporting the size of BITMAPFILEHEADER two bytes bigger than it
actually is, and there are two extra junk bytes at the beginning of the
structure data that shouldn't be there. They aren't there in CBuilder5, and
the size is reported properly, too.

I tried my own variant, shown below.
If I comment out bfReserved1, the size is still 16, but if I comment out
bfType too, the size goes down to 12, when it should be at ten.
Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this???

typedef struct tag2BITMAPFILEHEADER {
//        WORD    bfType;
        DWORD   bfSize;
//        WORD    bfReserved1;
        WORD    bfReserved2;
        DWORD   bfOffBits;
} BITMAPFILE2HEADER, FAR *LPBITMAPFILE2HEADER, *PBITMAPFILE2HEADER;

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