swetha

• Feb 20th, 2007

 

creating the object means creating the memory, therefore even though there are no
members in the class also, it will create a phsical memory location of 1 byte and gets the address(object is reality)

Gunvant

 Profile Answers by Gunvant 

• Mar 22nd, 2007

 

Yeah true. Just to mark its existence size is 1 byte.

pulak

• Jun 3rd, 2007

 

The handler consumes one byte if class is empty.

ransome

• Oct 18th, 2007

 

Yes, the compiler will generate 1 byte of memory to mark the existence of the class.  This doesn't answer WHY though.  The reason is the language standard states that all classes must have a memory size of at least 1 byte so that the class doesn't occupy the same memory space with another class.  This is to prevent name mangling.  i.e., if I declare a class A {};, the compiler will still generate an entry in its table to something called "A".  If behind that I declare another class, say class B, if A takes 0 bytes of memory, and B's data gets written in the place where A was declared.  In this case, an instantiation of A would take on the properties of B.

a_l_soni

 Profile Answers by a_l_soni 

• Nov 27th, 2009

 

As per MSDN: "The sizeof operator never yields 0, even for an empty class."

When you calculate the size of a empty class that time you can c it takes 1 byte.which is the size of a char which a compiler takes for storing the address of a empty class.

The size of an empty class would depend on, what is the range specified for the compiler for char. It takes that much space to store the address of a class.

bhiku

• Oct 10th, 2012

 

Yes, but we can put in other way also as we all know we have some default memfunctions created by compiler they are default constructor, default destructor, default copyactor, default assignment operator. So when you create a an object of empty class it will call the default constructor and look for the members to initialize if it wont find the members also first as soon u create object actor get called so whenever u create object it allocate space for class in memory so that will be default of 1byte if it finds members to initialize then it will combine 1 byte and
extend with that.

jadhav manjula

• Feb 2nd, 2016

 

Class is user define data type it store 1 byte memory

Subhashish

• Apr 26th, 2016

 

Since C++ Compiler allows to create an object of an empty class, so the minimum amount of memory required to hold the object is 1 Byte. thats why Empty size of empty class is 1 byte

ujjwal

• May 9th, 2016

 

class A
{
int a[0];
};
output will be 0 bytes
in this case your theory will be wrong.
now B can Overwrite Class A

aaa

• Jun 15th, 2016

 

The output of above code is 1 byte only...

raj

• Oct 20th, 2016

 

I am getting 1 byte size without creating object for empty class.
sizeof(Empty);

Jagadeesh

• Nov 14th, 2016

 

Output of above code is 0 byte not 1 byte .

narasimulu

• Feb 16th, 2017

 

1 byte

purvi

• May 9th, 2017

 

4byte

lokesh

• Sep 16th, 2017

 

1 byte

NADEEM JAWED

• Oct 10th, 2017

 

The size of empty class is 1 byte because every object has different address so the size of empty class is 1 byte

Code
#include<iostream>


using namespace std;


class A{


 


}


int main()


{


   A obj;


cout<<sizeof(obj)<<endl;


}