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#pragma pack() with push and pop vs unpack - dimorphism746 - 07-26-2023
I have this sample program below
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#pragma pack(push)
#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct{
char a;
int b;
char c;
}st_a;
#pragma pack(pop)
typedef struct{
char a;
int b;
char c;
}st_b;
int main()
{
printf("size of struct a %zd \n",sizeof(st_a));
printf("size of struct b %zd \n",sizeof(st_b));
return 0;
}
Output of the above program is
size of struct a 6
size of struct b 12
Now if I change the struct declaration as below:
#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct{
char a;
int b;
char c;
}st_a;
#pragma unpack()
Output of the program is
size of struct a 6
size of struct b 6
Why is this difference in the behaviour? My understanding was that both structure declarations are doing the same thing.
I am running this on my MBP.
$gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0
Thread model: posix
RE: #pragma pack() with push and pop vs unpack - sifts687019 - 07-26-2023
Your compiler knows nothing about `unpack()` pragma, and just ignores it, so the same packing rules are applied to both structures.
`MSVC` compiler will issue a warning about unknown `#pragma` directives on first warning level.
Both `GCC` and `Clang` keep silence by default. You need to use `-Wunknown-pragmas` flag.