Locally disable padding

Question

I write a parser for some data structure, after hours of debugging I found out that the problem is Visual Studio doesn\'t interpret the structures as I tell it. It seems som

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2010 has #pragma pack to do what you're looking for.

Answer 2

Use the #pragma pack directive for that:

#pragma pack(push, 1)
struct foo { 
  // etc..
};
#pragma pack(pop)