Struct on on x86_64 mac os x
Mark Dickinson
dickinsm at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 05:01:45 EDT 2009
On Oct 21, 9:18 am, Mark Dickinson <dicki... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 10:51 pm, Tommy Grav <tg... at pha.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > def read_header(cls):
> > hdrData = "84s"*3
> > constNData = "6s"*400
>
> I'm confused: why is this not "400s"*6 rather than "6s"*400?
> Doesn't constName[400][6] mean 6 lots of constName[400]?
> Similarly for "84s"*3. This might be making a difference to
> the padding.
Sorry, that's wrong. It won't make any difference to the padding,
since arrays don't have padding in C: sizeof(char[3]) is 3,
and sizeof(char[3][84]) is 3*84=252.
So your problem is likely just the difference between sizeof(long)
from one platform to another.
Mark
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