From: scott AT statsci DOT com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: Re: FW: Re: wxwin port
11 Nov 1996 18:08:18 -0800
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Keith Gary Boyce <garp AT opustel DOT com> wrote:

> Will someone give me an answer in context....
> How do I get sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) to be 14 when structure is
> as follows and with gnu-win32 sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) is 16 when it 
> should be 14?? Help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> (gdb) ptype BITMAPFILEHEADER
> type = struct tagBITMAPFILEHEADER {
>     short unsigned int bfType;
>     unsigned int bfSize;
>     short unsigned int bfReserved1;
>     short unsigned int bfReserved2;
>     unsigned int bfOffBits;
> }

I would place my bets on there being an extra 2 bytes of alignment padding 
between the bfType and bfSize fields. The alignment of the fields probably 
wants to stick the 4 byte bfSize field on an offset into the struct that is a 
multiple of 4 bytes.

One way to see what's going would be to do some variant of these untested 
little debugging statements:

	#define offset(str,field) (&(str.field) - &(str))
	struct tagBITMAPFILEHEADER tag;
	printf ("offset of bfType=%d\n", offset(tag, bfType));
	printf ("offset of bfSize=%d\n", offset(tag, bfSize));
	printf ("offset of bfReserved1=%d\n", offset(tag, bfReserved1));

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