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.

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Answer 1

If you are using a Microsoft compiler then explore the align pragma. There are also the alignment include files:

#include 
// your code here
#include 

GNU gcc has a different system that allows you to add alignment/padding to the structure definition.