I'm trying to print out sizeof() values for some of my structures. They are coming out incorrect. Here is a small table in which I've done this on different platforms: Linux : sizeof(TChannel) = 1460 Windows: sizeof(TChannel) = 1460 8051 : sizeof(TChannel) = 1361 Are there byte-alignment issues perhaps? I have both Linux and Windows defaulting to a 1-byte boundary for byte alignment in structures. Does the 8051 default to something different? Here's my code for the 8051: Debugf( "sizeof(TChannel) = %u\r\n", sizeof( TChannel ) ); I've tried %u, %d, %lu, %bu, %X but can't get the right value. Here's my Debugf() function in case that might be messing things up: void Debugf(BYTE* format, ...) { #ifdef DEBUG xdata BYTE buf[64]; va_list arglist; va_start (arglist,format); vsprintf(buf,format,arglist); va_end (arglist); SendSerialData( buf, strlen( buf ) ); #endif } I don't think the problem is in my SendSerialData() function as that seems to work well. Any ideas?
ISO C99 has finally gotten around to supplying some standard types with specific sizes. <inttypes.h> will give you int8_t, uint8_t, and so on. It also provides some "half-open" types, so you can express the notion of "most convenient/fastest unsigned integer type as long as it's at least 16 bits wide" (uint_least16_t/uint_fast16_t), uintmax_t, intptr_t, conversion and limits macros galore, and so on. Not quite as terse as my favorites (U8, etc), and we're all already used to our home-grown solutions, but support should be available on multiple platforms without having to define them yourself. They also add a "bool" type, which of course introduces all sorts of interesting questions for every platform provider as to how it's implemented.