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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> Yet it doesn't contain the essential information I listed. Could you, 
> just from that, create a table of field names, sizes and offsets, 
> followed by a total struct size?

You could write a C program that prints the offsetof and sizeof values
for the members of the struct.

> And since this can vary by platform, how to get an accurate table for yours?

By compiling and running that program on each platform.

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