Re: Mr. Seligman, please show me =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C?= Implicit_Size_of_Int32 == -16 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9D.?=

From:
"Scott Seligman" <seligman@example.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
4 Dec 2007 16:23:30 -0800
Message-ID:
<fj4r22$ivb$1@panix5.panix.com>
=?UTF-8?Q?Jeff=E2=98 Relf?= <Jeff_Relf@Yahoo.COM> wrote:

Re: This code of mine:
??? #pragma warning( disable: 4007 4189 4430 4508 )
 WinMain( int, int, int, int ) {
   const __int32 Int32 = 0 ; const __int64 Int64 = 0 ;

   int Implicit_Size_of_Int32 = int( & Int64 ) - int( & Int32 );
   // Breaking here, ??? Implicit_Size_of_Int32 == 8 ???.
 } ???.
 
I'm taking about VC++ 8.0's default alignment, of course.
Can you, using the code above, get ??? Implicit_Size_of_Int32 == -16 ???,
Mr. Seligman ?


Yes, as soon as you turn on runtime checks (/RTC), and of course
things change further with other optimizations.

Your code produces 8 in a debug build with all optimizations and such
off, but that's very nearly useless information.

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