C structs & fread

I have a struct i want to read in from file. To be specific its a windows bmp. It works when i read in the values individually, but when I try and read the structure as a whole it gets the wrong values:


struct BITMAPFILEHEADER{
    unsigned short bfType;        // size: 2
    unsigned int bfSize;        // size: 4
    unsigned short bfReserved1;    // size: 2 
    unsigned short bfReserved2;    // size: 2 
    unsigned int bfOffBits;    //size: 4
};

// works
fread (&fileheader.bfType,2,1,imgFile);
fread (&fileheader.bfSize,4,1,imgFile);
fread (&fileheader.bfReserved1,2,1,imgFile);
fread (&fileheader.bfReserved2,2,1,imgFile);
fread (&fileheader.bfOffBits,4,1,imgFile);

// does not work right
fread (&fileheader,sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER),1,imgFile);

Your struct is not necessarily with size 2 and 4 entries.  For optimization purposes, depending on how the compiler feels like fucking with you, it could 4-byte align each field.  Dunno if it's the problem, but it's a possibility.  Faggot