> I'm very new to C++, and can't figure out why I get two extra bytes when I
> write this structure to a file:
> The way I count, this structure should be only 190 bytes, but if I do a
> sizeof( fMsg), it reports 192!
You didn't tell your compiler, but I think the compiler adds so many extra 
bytes that size of the struct is divisible by 4. (4 bytes=32 bits) This 
somehow makes the programs faster.
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