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Re: possible structure layout bug
Stephen Kennedy wrote:
Is there any particular reason that the packing rules for have been
changed from gcc-3.4 to gcc-3.5?
I would have thought that this would break the ABI. Unless it is fixing
existing breakage of course.
it is the latter case.
Base1 is non-pod, therefore its trailing padding can be overlaid by a
derived class.
Base2 is pod, therefore its trailing padding cannot be overlaid. The
gcc3.3 numbers show that it was being overlaid.
A program can legitimately use memcpy (x, y, sizeof (Base2))
to copy the Base2 part of a Derived2 object and not have that clobber
any other part of the Derived2 object.
Have you tested what 3.4 does?
nathan
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