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

If you are reading and writing this file yourself, try Google Protobuf library. It will handle all byteorder, alignment, padding and language interop issues.

http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/