From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <khalid@ncst.ernet.in>
To: linux c programming mailing list <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: structure size
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:32:01 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303051227480.30291-100000@soochak.ncst.ernet.in> (raw)
Hi,
why the sizeof sturcture is alway greater than the collective sizes of all
the elements in it.
eg
struct node {
int a;
char c;
int b;
};
int main()
{
printf ("%d\n", sizeof (struct node));
return 0;
}
it prints 12 in my case.
where is the catch.
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next reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 7:02 Mohammed Khalid Ansari [this message]
2003-03-05 8:27 ` structure size Helmut Djurkin
2003-03-25 10:00 ` strange SIGSEGV Alexi Jordanov
2003-03-05 9:06 ` (F)structure size Steven Smith
2003-03-12 22:49 ` getlogin(), prints ((NULL)) when printing multiple times in a row J.
2003-03-12 23:14 ` Glynn Clements
2003-03-13 0:18 ` getlogin(), prints ((NULL)) solved.. thnkx.. glen J.
[not found] <65256CE0.00269E0A.00@sandesh.hss.hns.com>
2003-03-06 4:03 ` structure size Mohammed Khalid Ansari
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