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From:	Infinity da Gook <dagook AT ozemail DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	something wierd with shorts and ints...help!
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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:43:00 +1100
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this iz prolly just a really simple thing...but i got no idea what's
causing it....

i have a struct....

//============
typedef struct
{
    byte    marker[8];    // where byte was prev defined az unsigned
char
    short   pad;
    int       CatEntries;
    int       BaseOffset;
} TLKHeader_t;
//==============

now when i load the data from a binary file...

54 4C 4B 20    56 31 20 20     00 00 FA 50    00 00 76 39
08 00

the 'marker' array should contain this...  54 4C 4B 20 56 31 20 20
the 'pad' should contain....  00 00
the 'CatEntries' should contain...  FA 50 00 00
and 'BaseOffset' ...   76 39 08 00

but it doesn't!!!
'marker' and 'pad' come out fine....but 'CatEntries' comes out with...
00 00 76 39
'BaseOffset' iz similarly skrewed... with   08 03 xx xx

but when i dump the struct to a file, it comez out a perfect copy of the
original. (????)
it seemz to me that while the struct iz read from the file properly, the
pad (short) somehow occupies 4 bytes rather than 2 and offsets the rest
of the struct...(??pure speculation??)

in case u're wondering, i'm reading the file using fstream....

//==================
fstream TLKIO;
TLKIO.open ("dialog.tlk", ios::in | ios::binary | ios::nocreate);

TLKIO.read ((char*)&header, sizeof(TLKHeader_t));   // where header iz
an instance of TLKHeader_t
//==================

can somebody give me any help!??!

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