Re: pragma pack(1) on struct contains object

From:
peter koch <peter.koch.larsen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<511323b3-5f6f-4840-b180-213849d07eec@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On 12 Jul., 12:26, Steven Woody <narkewo...@gmail.com> wrote:

In our project, one used the following struct

#pragma pack(1)
struct Foo {
  uint8_t b1;
  uint8_t b2;
  uint8_t b3;
  std::vector<uint8_t> buf;
  ...};

#pragma pack()

this work on PC, but not on ARM target using a gcc/g++ cross
compiler. The problem is, on ARM, after defined a variable of Foo
and want to access a method of buf, such as

    Foo foo;
    foo.buf.resize(100);

the program will exit. I guss it's a segment failure.

Can you experts explain for me the reason? I know, it is suspious
that why this guy use pack(1) on this kind of struct, but we can just
ignore it and focus on the underlying reason why the usage cause the
failure.


Because some processors require that certain types are properly
aligned. So stop packing your structures: even on x86 architectures,
packed structures (although allowed) cause the code to run much more
slowly.

/Peter

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