[Z88dk-users] Problem with structs and function pointers

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[Z88dk-users] Problem with structs and function pointers

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Hello. I've hit a problem while trying to use structs holding function pointers. I don't know if I made something wrong, but at the end I figured out that the alignment of the elements seems to be wrong. I have written the following minimal example:

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extern void f0();
extern void f1();

struct {
void (*foo)();
unsigned char (*bar)();
} test[] = {
{f0, f1},
{f0, f1}
};
Compiling this to assembler by using:

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zcc +zx --c-code-in-asm -vn -a bugptr.c
leads to this assembler output:

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...
MODULE  bugptr


INCLUDE "z80_crt0.hdr"


;extern void f0();
;extern void f1();
;struct {
;void (*foo)();
;unsigned char (*bar)();
;} test[] = {
SECTION data_compiler

._test
;{f0, f1},an
defw    _f0
defw    _f1
defb    0
;{f0, f1}
defw    _f0
defw    _f1
defb    0
;};

SECTION code_compiler
...
The problem are those extra bytes at the end of each of the elements of the array. Surprisingly (at least for me), this only happens when the return type is defined as unsigned, what I really don't understand at all.

Can somebody put some light into this?

Thanks and best regards, :)
Manuel



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Post by dom »

Hello. I've hit a problem while trying to use structs holding function pointers. I don't know if I made something wrong, but at the end I figured out that the alignment of the elements seems to be wrong. I have written the following minimal example:
Thank you for the minimal example. I think this issue is this one: https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/issues/295

I can't reproduce it with the latest master.



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Post by overCLK »

Thank you for the minimal example. I think this issue is this one: https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/issues/295

I can't reproduce it with the latest master.
Thanks for your fast answer. I've just downloaded the current nightly and the problem is gone!

Regards



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