RCDATA Begins on 32-Bit Boundary in Win32 (84081)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1
  • Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.5
  • Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.51
  • Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) 4.0

This article was previously published under Q84081
RCDATA is guaranteed to begin on a DWORD boundary. However, the strings and the integers specified in the statement are not aligned by the Resource Compiler (RC)
   RCDATA statement:

   resname RCDATA
   BEGIN

       0,0,

   END
		

The definition of RCDATA is not changed. The strings and integers specified in the statement, 0 in this case, are not aligned on the DWORD boundary. However, the beginning of the data is DWORD-aligned.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:3/6/1999
Keywords:KB84081