RE: Need Help on Understanding N Bit int

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microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:54:01 -0700
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Hi,

You expected 2 but got 4, right? This is boundary alignment issue. Your data
is aligned by 4bytes. Compiler will pad any structure that is not 4byte
aligned [this is by default].
See #pragma pack , it might be interesting/useful.

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======
Arman

"Mohammad Omer" wrote:

Hi,

I wrote following code in vs2k5 and its working fine. Please guide,
int Int:Size; statement means and why sizeof(NInt) class is 4?? Please
refer me reading material as well.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template <int Size>
class NInt
{
private:
int Int:Size;
public:
int GetValue();
void SetValue(int value);
void PrintValue();
};

template <int Size>
int NInt<Size>::GetValue()
{
return this->Int;
}

template <int Size>
void NInt<Size>::SetValue(int value)
{
this->Int = value;
}

template <int Size>
void NInt<Size>::PrintValue()
{
cout<<"Value : "<<this->Int<<endl;
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
NInt<2> obj;
obj.PrintValue();
obj.SetValue(1);
obj.PrintValue();
obj.SetValue(2);
obj.PrintValue();
obj.SetValue(4);
obj.PrintValue();
obj.SetValue(5);
obj.PrintValue();
cout<<"Size of : "<<sizeof(obj)<<endl;
cout<<"press any key to continue..."<<endl;
_gettch();
return 0;
}

Regards,
-aims

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