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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: MSC 6.0 Bug/struct params
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Date: 17 Jul 90 18:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jul 17 13:43:00 1990


I just got off the hook with Microsoft Tech Support, and thought I would report
this bug in Microsoft C 6.0 to the net.

When passing a struct to a function, the struct must be word aligned. If your
struct is more than 10 bytes long, and if it has an odd-byte size, the struct
will not get passed correctly to the function.

Workaround is to either pad your struct to it has even length, or pass in a
pointer to the struct.

Hope this helps someone.

Milan.
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