Determine the size of a cluster in memory

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

In additional:

Here is the document How LabVIEW Stores Data in Memory

best regards,
Andrey.

[parthabe]

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tst wrote:

When you put all of them together in a cluster, the total amount of memory needed to hold the data in the cluster is the sum of those numbers.

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This means that LV has only a Struct datatype, and not a Union datatype, like that of in C.

Am I right?

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Yes, you're right.

For example, we have following cluster:

Then in memory this construction will be represented like this (refer to doc above):

Flattened to string cluster then looks like this:

I hope this explanation will be helpful for understanding.

Andrey.