Is there a way—much like viewing the result of preprocessing with gcc -E—to see what my objects look like once compiled into object files?
gcc -E
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For Visual C++:
I finally managed to dig up the (well-hidden!) undocumented compiler flags that MSVC++ supports using information from here and here. Here they are:
/d1reportSingleClassLayoutXXX /d1reportAllClassLayout
(replace XXX with the class name)
XXX