Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 21:18 MDT
From: mat AT ardi DOT com (Mat Hostetter)
To: digisoft AT eis DOT net DOT au
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Actual sizes of structs under djgpp?
References: <199509300212 DOT MAA03817 AT tinny DOT eis DOT net DOT au>

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul  <digisoft AT eis DOT net DOT au> writes:

    Paul> It's much the same as on the 68000.  The 80x86 chips work
    Paul> better with the proper alignment of data structures.  Longs
    Paul> align on 4 byte boundaries, chars align on byte boundaries.
    Paul> I think short's align on 2 byte boundaries, but I havn't had
    Paul> occasion to check this in a long while.

Actually, the 680x0 series only want longs to be aligned modulo 2 bytes.

-Mat