fread problem

Hi
I am having problem reading file using fread.
I was looking at emule code in which at certain point it read a file server.met
using fread.
I copied that code and build simple VC++ application to see its effect.
When ever i run this code in VC++6 the 1) displays 24 which is right but
2) displays 16908288, may be garbage value (It should be 12 as when i
compile and run actual application 4m which i copied it diplays 24 and then 12).

I ran the code using Borland c ver 3 and it diplays the correct value 24 and
and then 12.

So why i am getting 24 and then 16908288(instead of 12)
The file server.met can be downloded 4m
http://www.zshare.net/download/server-met.html

Code:

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              struct ServerMet_Struct {
        unsigned char        ip[4];
        unsigned short        port;
        unsigned int tagcount;
                };

            FILE* servermet = fopen("server.met", "rb");
       
                unsigned int fservercount;
       
        fread(&fservercount,4,1,servermet);
                char buff[10];
        itoa(fservercount,buff,10);
  1)          AfxMessageBox(buff);    //or cout<<buff;
             

        ServerMet_Struct sbuffer;       
       
        fread(&sbuffer,1,sizeof(ServerMet_Struct),servermet);
       
       
        itoa(sbuffer.tagcount,buff,10);
  2)        AfxMessageBox(buff);  // or cout<<buff;

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check out the actual parameters of fread.

Code:

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fread(&sbuffer,1,sizeof(ServerMet_Struct),servermet);

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ssharish2005

The code is 100% same 4m actual coder. I have double checked it.
thanks.

Your server.met does not contain PG-13 type material -- don't do that.

Are you aware that structures may be padded?
http://c-faq.com/struct/padding.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...vcrefAlign.asp

Thanks very much

I was dissappointed first and start checking project setting where
i find compiler options. My one was not using /Zp1 /wd4200
switches which i think were need for alignment and padding of
structures.