[Pyrex] A riddle

[Josiah Carlson]

Tomasz Primke <tprimke at interia.pl> wrote:
> Well, I think I have finally find that *.* bug.
> 
> My friend told me, that in C the assumption
> 
>   sizeof( some struct ) == sum of sizeof( all struct's attributes )
> 
> is not always met. The sum of struct's attributes sizes must be rounded up 
> to 4. So I changed the "size" C function code to:

Depending on your compiler and platform, it may be doing 8-byte
alignment in structs.  A recent bug with the Windows socket module in
Python was caused by a compiler flag mismatch, resulting in alignment
mismatching between the library itself, and where Python expected it to
be.

 - Josiah