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From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kåven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: struct problem
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:22:36 GMT
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>'__attribute__((packed))' must be appended to *each* member declaration 
>of your struct. It's not very intuitive, but that's the way it is. So yours
>should be: 

>typedef struct res_hdr {
>  char res_sig __attribute__ ((packed));
>  int res_numentries __attribute((packed));
>} res_header __attribute__((packed));

I don't think that's necessary... this works fine with me:

typedef struct res_hdr {
  char res_sig;
  int res_numentries;
} __attribute__((packed)) res_header;

e.g. you apply the attribute to the struct, not the typedef.