[issue11920] ctypes: Strange bitfield structure sizing issue

[Santoso Wijaya]

Santoso Wijaya <santoso.wijaya at gmail.com> added the comment:

What compilers were used to build your Python distro and the native structure?

I found out in _ctypes/cfield.c (lns. 76-95):

    if (bitsize /* this is a bitfield request */
        && *pfield_size /* we have a bitfield open */
#ifdef MS_WIN32
        /* MSVC, GCC with -mms-bitfields */
        && dict->size * 8 == *pfield_size
#else
        /* GCC */
        && dict->size * 8 <= *pfield_size
#endif
        && (*pbitofs + bitsize) <= *pfield_size) {
        /* continue bit field */
        fieldtype = CONT_BITFIELD;
#ifndef MS_WIN32
    } else if (bitsize /* this is a bitfield request */
        && *pfield_size /* we have a bitfield open */
        && dict->size * 8 >= *pfield_size
        && (*pbitofs + bitsize) <= dict->size * 8) {
        /* expand bit field */
        fieldtype = EXPAND_BITFIELD;
#endif

So the allocation of the extra byte for the structure seems to depend on Python's compiler. To make sure, I compiled a native structure using MSVC:

#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct _struct1
{
    UINT8 first   : 1;
    UINT8 second  : 1;
    UINT8 third   : 1;
    UINT8 fourth  : 1;
    UINT8 fifth   : 1;
    UINT16 pad    : 11;
} struct1;

And I got the same value (sizeof == 3).

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