Empty Classes

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
//定义一个空类
class A {};
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
 // A is emptyclass

 A* p1 = new A;
 A* p2 = new A;
 cout << "sizeof(A) = " << sizeof(A) << " or " << sizeof(*p1) << endl;
 cout << "address p1 = " << p1 << endl;
 cout << "address p2 = " << p2 << endl;
 //我机器上的结果
 //sizeof(A) = 1  
 //address p1 = 00372AD0 //address p2 = 00372B08  //p1 != p2
#endif 
 return 0;
}

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In C, an empty struct like: 
        struct A {};

is invalid, whereas in C++ usage like:

        struct A {};
or: 
        class B {};

is perfectly legal. This type of construct is useful when developing a skeleton or placeholder for a class.
An empty class has size greater than zero. Two class objects of empty classes will have distinct addresses,

There are still one or two C++ compilers that generate C code as their "assembly" language. To handle an empty class, they will generate a dummy member, so for example: 
        class A {};
becomes: 
        struct A {
                char __dummy;
        };
in the C output.