Thanks Corey, that should help.
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: Corey Murtagh
>From what I understand of structure alignment, it only pads the structure
when a member would be placed somewhere that isn't an even multiple of its
own size, or the alignment value whichever is smaller. So that structure
should have offsets 0, 2 and 4 for Degree, Minute and Second respectively
and a size of 8 bytes.
Assuming structure alignment is 4:
struct SExample
{
short foo;
int bar;
};
...will have a size of 8 bytes, with offsets of 0 and 4 for foo and bar
respectively.
Hope this helps.
--
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Middlemiss
Hi all,
how do I determine which alignment to choose for a record that will be sent
to a DLL compiled from C++ ? I have the source code for a test app that uses
the DLL but I don't know enough of C++ to work out how to send a record to
it. Here is a typical structure:
typedef struct EscCoordinateTag
{
short Degree;
short Minute;
float Second;
} ESC_COORDINATE, *LPESC_COORDINATE;
Some structures contain other structure types also.
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