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Hi, I'm reading the header from bitmaps. When I add up everything in a struct I've made, it comes out to 54 bytes. When I do a sizeof(BHeader), it says it's 56 bytes. It adds two null bytes after the B and the M when I save a header to a file. It's very weird. Please help.
Here's my struct:
Here's my struct:
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The compiler is aligning the struct elements on word (4byte) boundaries, thus the two empty bytes between your char's and the next element.
You might look up what the pack pragma will do for you, or other compiler options.
You might look up what the pack pragma will do for you, or other compiler options.
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