> Hi all,
>
> This seems basic but somehow I got different answer for it:
>
> typedef struct
> {
> Char cFieldName[16];
> Char cFieldType;
> Word wFieldAttribute;
> Word wFieldLength;
> UChar cFieldDecimal;
> UChar ucFieldOffset;
> } FIELD_DEF;
>
> I sizeof all the structure members and it returns me 23.
> sizeof(FIELD_DEF) will return me 24 bytes, instead of 23.
> Why is it so? Where does the one extra byte come from?
the compiler has probably optimized it to be word aligned.
i dont know for sure, but it may be the case that the
dragonball CPU requires all records to be on word boundaries
cheers
az.
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