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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: gumbold@bonbon.net
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: data structure question
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:28:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17032.48134.349409.976254@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42881ADE.2010009@bonbon.net>


gumbold wrote:

> So char abc[0] actualy pointer to chat?

No, it's an array of char.

> It should be 4 byte long on x86. I can't see it with sizeof.

It's zero bytes long.

If you had:

	struct abc {
	    __u16 a;
	    __u16 b;
	    char abc[4];
	};

then sizeof(struct abc) would be 8 and the offset of abc from the
beginning of the structure would be 4.

With:

	struct abc {
	    __u16 a;
	    __u16 b;
	    char abc[0];
	};

sizeof(struct abc) would be 4 and the offset of abc from the beginning
of the structure would still be 4 (i.e. p->abc refers to the first
byte after the structure).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15  9:32 data structure question gumbold
2005-05-15 11:02 ` Glynn Clements
2005-05-15 11:24   ` gumbold
2005-05-15 14:23     ` Glynn Clements
2005-05-16  4:00       ` gumbold
2005-05-16 15:28         ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2005-05-16 18:31           ` gumbold
2005-05-17  7:36             ` Glynn Clements
2005-05-16 19:07           ` gumbold

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