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.

ps: If

Answer 1

Gimpel's FlexeLint/PClint can do this.

$ cat tst.c
int main (void)
{
    struct {
        char c;
        double d;
        short s;
    } f = { 1, 2.0, 3 };

    return f.c;
}

It will report

$ flexelint -w1 +e95? tst.c
FlexeLint for C/C++ (Unix) Vers. 9.00L, Copyright Gimpel Software 1985-2014

--- Module:   tst.c (C)
                _
        double d;
tst.c  5  Note 958: Padding of 7 byte(s) is required to align member on 8 byte
    boundary
    _
    } f = { 1, 2.0, 3 };
tst.c  7  Note 959: Nominal struct size (18 bytes) is not an even multiple of
    the maximum member alignment (8 bytes)
tst.c  7  Note 958: Padding of 6 byte(s) is required to align end of struct on
    8 byte boundary