C Programming help .....wtf ?!?!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 21:16, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Why does the sizeof( struct _dummymenu) on the below
> return 8 ?

I would expect 5 on a 32-bit processor.

Not sure. What does sizeof(DummyMenu) return? That would have been the
one I would have used. I think it may be that the 'struct _dummymenu' is
part of a typedef statement, and thus may not mean what one may expect.
I would think the only reason to have a _dummymenu part is if you needed
to make a pointer to a DummyMenu inside DummeMenu. So I bet the compiler
treats it a bit odd.

> 
> 
>    typedef struct _dummymenu
>         {
>         char d_char ;
>         int d_sumnumber ;
>         } DummyMenu ;
> 
> Yet if I do one a structure like this:
> 
> typedef struct _dummymenu
>         {
>         char a_char ;
>         char b_char ;
>         char c_char ;
>         } DummyMenu ;
> 
> it returns 3 ......
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