I have two structs:
struct struct_A
{
uint8_t v1[4]; // 4 bytes
uint8_t v2;
};
struct struct_B
{
uint32_t v1; // 4 bytes
uint8_t v2; // 1 byte
};
I obtain their sizes by using the code:
std::cout<<"size of struct_A is: "<<(sizeof(struct_A)) <<std::endl;
std::cout<<"size of struct_A::v1 is: "<<(sizeof(struct_A::v1))<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"size of struct_A::v2 is: "<<(sizeof(struct_A::v2))<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"size of struct_B is: "<<(sizeof(struct_B)) <<std::endl;
std::cout<<"size of struct_B::v1 is: "<<(sizeof(struct_B::v1))<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"size of struct_B::v2 is: "<<(sizeof(struct_B::v2))<<std::endl;
And I get output:
size of struct_A is: 5
size of struct_A::v1 is: 4
size of struct_A::v2 is: 1
size of struct_B is: 8
size of struct_B::v1 is: 4
size of struct_B::v2 is: 1
How do I understand the size of struct_A and size of struct_B are different? Thanks.