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I write a parser for some data structure, after hours of debugging I found out that the problem is Visual Studio doesn't interpret the structures as I tell it. It seems some "padding" is used

struct foo {  unsigned char a; //0x00 unsigned char b; //0x01 unsigned int c; //0x02 unsigned int d; //0x06 unsigned int e; //0x0A unsigned int f; //0x0E //0x12 }; 

I expected "sizeof(foo)=4*4+2=18" but I get "sizeof(foo)=20". Is there any possibility to turn padding off just for this special struct? I tried

__declspec(align(1)) struct foo { ... 

but it does not work. Thank you for your help.

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Listing Avatar asked Jan 19 '12 21:01

Listing


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Use the #pragma pack directive for that:

#pragma pack(push, 1) struct foo {    // etc.. }; #pragma pack(pop) 
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Hans Passant Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 02:09

Hans Passant