Subj : Re: bit field bug?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Mon Nov 17 2003 09:04 am

Jeff wrote:

>I am upgrading an old app from Borland C++ 5.01a to the latest MS Visual
>Studio C++.  The app uses bitfields in data structures and I am seeing a
>problem where it looks like the MS version of the data structure is correct
>in size, but the Borland C++ version is larger by 1 byte than it should be.
>Is there a bug in BC++ 5.01a in the bit field assignment and layout?

Sounds like a data alignment problem.
Could be that you have MS set for Byte alignment, and BC for Word.

We'd need to see your actual structure for a diagnosis.

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