Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/11/14:12:15
"Oleg Yu. Polyanski" <luke AT eed DOT miee DOT ru> wrote:-
> Well, I see no reasons to use packed structures *at all*. This way is
> unportable between different platforms and often even between different
> compilers on the same platform. ... `-fpack-struct' ...
(1) When calling an interrupt, I often need to declare a packed struct which
matches the layout of the data needed or provided by the interrupt.
(2) If I am declaring `struct(long i; char c;} X[0x4000];', having 5 rather
than 8 bytes in each array element can save a lot of space.
V gode 1991 ya letel v Rossiyu i ya byl v Baikonure (kosmicheskom meste).
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