Re: Structure and sizeof mis-behaving

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From: Chris
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:18

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This did not work. :(

"Hans Galema" <j.m.galema.dontusethis@maartens.nl> wrote in message
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> Chris wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is because of aligning of the variables at 4 byte boundaries.
>
> Try:
>
> #pragma push(pack, 2)        // set to 2 byte alignment
>  > typedef struct tag2BITMAPFILEHEADER {
>  > ....
> #pragma push(pop)            // reset to previous alignment value
>
> Hans.
>

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