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Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 07:51:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Fortin <fortin44 AT eelab DOT newpaltz DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: more sizeof questions
In-Reply-To: <199605090048.UAA09442@eelab.newpaltz.edu>
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, John Fortin wrote:

> OK, I'm a bit confused..(nothing new i'm afraid)... The structure 
> below was taken from the VESA 1.2 spec. sizeof(_VGAInfoBlock) should 
> be 256.  DJGPP gives 260.  What's up with this.  A previous posting 
> mentioned 4 byte boundaries, but 256 is divisable by 4.  Any Ideas??

Please read section 22.9 of the DJGPP FAQ list, it explains this issue in
detail.  The FAQ is available as v2/faq200b.zip from the same place you
get DJGPP.  Or you can read the FAQ on-line if you point your Web browser
to this URL: 

	http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq.html

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