Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 1997 14:20:13 +1100
From:	Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Why does sizeof give me...
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To:	spiritseeker AT geocities DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<199708070224.OAA03759@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz>
Organization:	Tait Electronics Limited
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On  6 Aug 97 at 22:06, spiritseeker wrote:

> Hello, hello!
> 
> I'm converting some code from my old 16 bit c programs to
> 32 bit .. suddenly sizeof gives me values that are many bytes
> larger than my old structures! This means whenever i want to fread
> and fwrite files the structures get's messed up! 
> 
> I compiled the same .c file in borland. and there was a 300 byte
> difference beetwen the sizeof from bc and the one from djgpp.
> 
> What to do?

First, change all `int's to `short' because `int' in djgpp is 32 bits 
instead of 16.

Second, for every `member', add `__attribute__((packed))'

eg

struct foo {
	char snafu __attribute__((packed));
	long bar __attribute__((packed));

}

This tells gcc not to align the data types, which it does by default. 
Of coarse, the `attribute__((packed))' can be #defined to (say) 
PACKED and you can use that instead.

Bill
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