Struct Padding

Question

I am trying to read chunks of data from a file directly into a struct but the padding is causing too much data to be read and the data to be misaligned.

Do I have to man

Answer 1

No, you don't have to read each field separately. This is called alignment/packing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment

C-style cast is equivalent to reinterpret_cast. In this case you use it correctly. You may use a C++-specific syntax, but it is a lot more typing.