Re: Structure size
On 2007-07-20 16:45, LR wrote:
Victor Bazarov wrote:
LR wrote:
(I'm assuming that as you said in another post, you don't have a
portability problem and you can control your compiler to take care of
packing issues.)
struct x1 {
int a,b,c;
};
struct x2 {
int a; double e,f,g,h,i;
};
template<typename T>
struct Message {
T t;
char v[1024 - sizeof(T)];
};
then, else where you can...
Message<x1> m1;
Message<x2> m2;
[..]
I am not sure here, but I believe there is no guarantee that the size
of the 'Message<x1>' or 'Message<x2>' is actually going to be 1024
even with the mechanism you give here.
Is that because of templates? Nested structs? Are you referring to the
OP's particular compiler and it's control of packing/alignment?
The structs I would guess, there's no guarantee that there wont be any
padding between the t and v in Message.
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