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Re: Show number of padding bytes in data structures

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:21:15PM +0200, Frank Winklmeier wrote:
> > thanks for your reply. I was hoping for a more efficient way for a large  
> > number of classes and structs. Ideally, I would like to compare the number of 
> > padding bytes for a library compiled in 32 and 64 bit and see how many bytes 
> > got wasted for each data structure due to the different memory alignment.
> 
> You could write such a thing - the information is all there - but I am
> not aware of any pre-existing tool.

Google for "pahole".

-Andi
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