how to define a struct without padding
aki via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed May 24 18:25:44 PDT 2017
Hi,
This is a code ported from some windows C program.
It is the Windows WAVE file header definition.
The field layout is the same with C,
but it has extra 2 bytes at the end,
sizeof(WAVEHEADER) in C is 46 while WAVEHEADER.sizeof in D is 48.
Why it still have padding in spite of "align(1)" ?
How can I remove extra padding bytes?
module main;
import std.stdio;
alias ushort WORD;
alias uint DWORD;
align(1) struct WAVEFORMATEX {
WORD wFormatTag; /* format type */
WORD nChannels; /* number of channels (i.e.
mono, stereo...) */
DWORD nSamplesPerSec; /* sample rate */
DWORD nAvgBytesPerSec; /* for buffer estimation */
WORD nBlockAlign; /* block size of data */
WORD wBitsPerSample; /* number of bits per sample
of mono data */
WORD cbSize; /* the count in bytes of the
size of */
/* extra information (after cbSize) */
};
align(1) struct WAVEHEADER {
char[4] szRIFF;
int lRIFFSize;
char[4] szWave;
char[4] szFmt;
int lFmtSize;
WAVEFORMATEX wfex;
char[4] szData;
int lDataSize;
};
void main() {
writeln(WAVEHEADER.sizeof); // 48; but it must be 46
}
Thanks,
Aki
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