Find holes in C structs due to alignment

Question

Is there a way in gcc or clang (or any other compiler) to spit information about whether a struct has holes (memory alignment - wise) in it ?

Thank you.

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Answer 1

You need a parser which understands c/c++ structures and includes necessary includes files.

As replied by @roee-gavirel, I think the easier solution is to create a test program to print out the offsets

#include 
#include 

typedef struct tData {
  long   id;       /* 8 bytes */
  char   name[8];  /* 8 bytes */
  float  salary;   /* 4 bytes */
} tData;

tData d;

int main()
{
  size_t s_tData  = sizeof(tData);
  size_t s_id     = sizeof(d.id);
  size_t s_name   = sizeof(d.name);
  size_t s_salary = sizeof(d.salary);

  printf("sizeof(tData) = %zu\n\n", sizeof(d));

  printf("'id'     is at = %3zu  occupies %zu bytes\n",
         offsetof(tData, id), s_id);
  printf("'name'   is at = %3zu  occupies %zu bytes\n",
         offsetof(tData, name), s_name);
  printf("'salary' is at = %3zu  occupies %zu bytes\n",
         offsetof(tData, salary), s_salary);

  printf("\n");

  if (s_tData != s_id + s_name + s_salary)
    printf("There is/are holes\n");

  return 0;
}