Chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In this case, it doesn't, as the struct I'm emulating is:
> typedef struct {
> Uint8 type; /* SDL_KEYDOWN or SDL_KEYUP */
> Uint8 which; /* The keyboard device index */
> Uint8 state; /* SDL_PRESSED or SDL_RELEASED */
> SDL_keysym keysym;
> } SDL_KeyboardEvent;
> SDL_keysym itself is a struct:
> typedef struct {
> Uint8 scancode; /* hardware specific */
> SDLKey sym; /* SDL virtual keysym */
> SDLMod mod; /* current key modifiers */
> Uint16 unicode; /* translated character */
> } SDL_keysym;
> SDLKey and SDLMod are both enums.
> As I understand it (and correct me if I'm wrong), SDL_keysym needs a
> byte of padding on my architecture within SDL_KeyboardEvent.
Brr. I don't know. I've to ask my debugger for that :) If you have
SDL_keysym alone, that needs 3 bytes additional alignment. But don't ask
me about the combined structure.
But I'd say that there are four adjacent Uint8 taking one word, then is
another word (SDLkey sym). Or a structure starts aligned ...
We don't have a notion of nested structures. They could go just inline,
i.e. without extra syntax. Pointers to structures are of course missing
too, that's a different thingy.
> I can add
> that padding manually, but I'm not convinced that'll be portable to
> different architectures.
Automatic alignment based on the data type sizes is for sure better.
> -- c
leo
