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Re: Cygwin struct alignment
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Brian Ford wrote:
> The only major difference I'm aware of is that Cygwin defaults to 8 byte
> alignment for long long and double for performance reasons, while MSVC
> defaults to 4 byte alignment for those types I believe.
Actually, I remebered one more difference. I think MSVC bit fields don't
pack into padding holes left by variables of differing type and vice
versa. Hope that helps.
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