Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:3818 From: Erik Max Francis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: more sizeof questions Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 19:35:38 -0700 Organization: Alcyone Systems Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3197F17A.B84B831@alcyone.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.alcyone.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The way you tell the compiler to pack structs is inherently > compiler-dependent. AFAIK, there is no standard on how this is done . . . Yes. ANSI makes absolutely no guarantee on struct padding. > . . . so > you must address every supported compiler in the way it understands. And, furthermore, you have no guarantee whatsoever that the compiler you're using allows you to specify no padding at all. -- Erik Max Francis &tSftDotIotE && http://www.alcyone.com/max && max AT alcyone DOT com San Jose, California, U.S.A. && 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W && the 4th R is respect H.3`S,3,P,3$S,#$Q,C`Q,3,P,3$S,#$Q,3`Q,3,P,C$Q,#(Q.#`-"C`- && 1love && folasade Omnia quia sunt, lumina sunt. && Dominion, GIGO, GOOGOL, Omega, Psi, Strategem "Out from his breast/his soul went to seek/the doom of the just." -- _Beowulf_