Re: sizeof error?

Michael R. Copeland <mrc2323@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> I have, I believe, a good reason: I am reading (with fread) a binary
> data file into this structure. The data is 6 bytes/record, and I tried
> - unsuccessfully - to use sizeof to specify the size of each read. It
> didn't work until I used a constant value of 6...which isn't the way I
> wanted to use the language. <sigh...>


Look into #pragma pack.

Schobi

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