TC bug in sizeof()?
Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch at watstat.waterloo.edu
Fri Feb 16 04:47:49 AEST 1990
A friend of mine has found something surprising in TC. Neither of us knows
C well enough to know for sure that this is a bug, but it looks like one.
As illustrated in the program below, if a structure is an odd size, and
is compiled with Word alignment, the sizeof function rounds the size up
one byte.
Is this a bug?
Sample program:
struct test
{ char a;
char b;
char c;
} structure;
main()
{
printf("Size of structure= %d\n",sizeof(structure));
}
This prints a 3 if compiled with byte alignment, an 4 if compiled with word
alignment.
Thanks for any help. Please post to comp.sys.ibm.pc, or email to me, as
you prefer.
Duncan Murdoch
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