A way to find the size and location of padding in a struct?

Question

I\'m trying to write a tool that will take as input some C code containing structs. It will compile the code, then find and output the size and offset of any padding the com

Answer 1

There is no C++ language feature to iterate through the members of a struct, so I think you're out of luck.

You might be able to cut down some of the boiler-plate with a macro, but I think you're stuck specifying all the members explicitly.