Message-Id: <199603110922.EAA15978@delorie.com>
Date:         Mon, 11 Mar 96 11:20:18 LIT
From: Martynas Kunigelis <martynas DOT kunigelis AT VM DOT KTU DOT LT>
Subject:      Re: Packed Align bug in G++ 2.7.2??
To: DJGPP mailing list <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:23:59 +0200 (IST)

On Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:23:59 +0200 (IST) you said:
>
>On 8 Mar 1996, Troy D. Van Horn wrote:
>
>>       I just discovered the reason for the problem today--I was compiling the
>> program using C++.  I wrote a small test program and which uses the following
>> structure from <dos.h>, and it produced different offsets when I compile to
>> assembly depending on whether I use C or C++.
>[snip]
>>      Evendently the C++ compiler does not properly handel the
>> __attribute__((packed)) command.
>
>Yes, that's right.  This is a known GCC bug, so it won't be corrected
>until some future GCC version.

...But you can still correct this behaviour by using #pragma pack(alignment).

Martynas Kunigelis