Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:16:41 -0500 From: Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sizeof(struct whatever) doesn't add up Message-ID: <35059199.3E101A99@accessv.com>
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I've started working on a CGI in C that uses large structures (over 1kb) to hold statistics. I've noticed in previous projects that when I attempt to get the size of a structured variable the value sizeof() returns is usually a few bytes more than the sum I get if I manually add up the sizes of the structure members. Since it worked anyway I passed the extra bytes off as something that C needed to keep track of the structure. But now that I'm using much bigger structures the extra bytes account for as much as 50% of one of my structures. There is no mention of anything like this in my C text. What are those extra bytes and, if possible, how do I get rid of them? Thanks. --- Geoffrey Robinson grobin@accessv.com Oakville, Ontario, Canada. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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