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Author mleroy003
Recipients mleroy003
Date 2017-11-08.22:31:58
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The structure :
typedef struct __attribute__ ((packed)) {
   unsigned int   F0:24;
   unsigned int   F3:24;
   unsigned int   F6:24;
   unsigned int   F9:24;
} StructF_T;
is mapped as expected by GCC under both Linux and Cygwin.
As expected, the memory layout seen by the C program is :
0x111111222222333333444444

Using this definition :
class StructF(ctypes.BigEndianStructure):
    _pack_ = 1
    _fields_ = [
        ('F0',      ctypes.c_uint, 24),
        ('F3',      ctypes.c_uint, 24),
        ('F6',      ctypes.c_uint, 24),
        ('F9',      ctypes.c_uint, 24),
    ]
The memory layout seen from Python is not consistent :
0x11111100222222003333330044444400

It seems that the pack option is ignored by ctypes in such a case.
I found the same problem using both ctypes.BigEndianStructure and ctypes.LittleEndianStructure
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