On 2009-03-26 10:12Z, Mikael Normark wrote: > I addedd __attrubute__((packed)) to both structures and that made it > all work as supposed to. Adding "packed" to the sample_pkg_t only > saved 2 bytes, adding it to sample_t saved the rest down to 396 so > obviously that structure is poorly aligned. > The ultimate solution would be to use an aligned structure intstead of > working around the problem like above, but this is good enough for me > at this point.
This is a general C FAQ, and not a Cygwin issue--but using fread() and fwrite() with structs is inherently not portable: http://c-faq.com/struct/io.html and there's no guarantee it'll work even with two different versions of the same compiler. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
