From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-04-01T11:23:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to get stat, Win32API to work

Park Heesob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com>
> >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> >Subject: Trying to get stat, Win32API to work
> >Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 05:46:36 +0900
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Ruby 1.8.4
> >Windows XP
> >
> >I'm trying to make a pure Ruby version of File::Stat.  Something seems
> >to go wrong around the time I get rdev.  I think I just need another set
> >of eyes to see what I'm doing wrong here.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Dan
> >
> ># stat.rb
> >
> ..
> >
> It is due to the structure alignment.
> Applications should generally align structure members at addresses that are
> ＾natural￣ for the data type and the processor involved. For example, a
> 4-byte data member should have an address that is a multiple of four.
>
> Refer to
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_core_structure_alignment.asp
> 
> Your code should be like this:

<snip>

Aha!  Thanks!

Dan