From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The size of structures and binary files
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:53:28 +0100
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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News Administrator wrote:
> 
> Dear DJGPP users!
> 
> Recently I came across something weird:
> I have two structs:
> struct s1 { char c1; char c2; short s};
> struct s2 { char c1; short s; char c2};
> 
> A call to sizeof will return 4 for s1 and 6 (!) for s2.
> It seems like the size of the chars in s2 gets increased to 2.
> 
[...]

Welcome to the world of alignment.
Just say

#pragma pack(1)
struct s1 { char c1; char c2; short s};
struct s2 { char c1; short s; char c2};
#pragma pack()


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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