• tsalm <tsalm free.fr> Oct 11 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> Oct 11 2008
• torhu <no spam.invalid> Oct 11 2008
• tsalm <tsalm free.fr> Oct 11 2008

tsalm <tsalm free.fr> writes:

Hello,

Is there a way to use a sort of struct which is not submit to alignment ?

For example :

struct MyStruct { long a; int b; }

have a size of 16 bytes.
But I only need 12.

Is there a way to have a sort of struct without alignment's system ?


Thanks in advance,
TSalm.

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

align(1) struct{ ... }

torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:

tsalm wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Is there a way to use a sort of struct which is not submit to alignment ?
 
 For example :
 
 struct MyStruct { long a; int b; }
 
 have a size of 16 bytes.
 But I only need 12.
 
 Is there a way to have a sort of struct without alignment's system ?
 
 
 Thanks in advance,
 TSalm.


align(1) struct MyStruct { long a; int b; }

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/attribute.html#align

tsalm <tsalm free.fr> writes:

 Hello,
  Is there a way to use a sort of struct which is not submit to  
 alignment ?
  For example :
  struct MyStruct { long a; int b; }
  have a size of 16 bytes.
 But I only need 12.
  Is there a way to have a sort of struct without alignment's system ?
   Thanks in advance,
 TSalm.


 align(1) struct MyStruct { long a; int b; }

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/attribute.html#align


Awesome! D is really an excellent language
Thanks you Torhu and Frank Benoit.