X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49CB5D56.5090301@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:47:50 +0000 From: Greg Chicares User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems when moving Ubuntu -> Cygwin -SOLVED References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2009-03-26 10:12Z, Mikael Normark wrote: > I addedd __attrubute__((packed)) to both structures and that made it > all work as supposed to. Adding "packed" to the sample_pkg_t only > saved 2 bytes, adding it to sample_t saved the rest down to 396 so > obviously that structure is poorly aligned. > The ultimate solution would be to use an aligned structure intstead of > working around the problem like above, but this is good enough for me > at this point. This is a general C FAQ, and not a Cygwin issue--but using fread() and fwrite() with structs is inherently not portable: http://c-faq.com/struct/io.html and there's no guarantee it'll work even with two different versions of the same compiler. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/