From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:50:23 GMT-1
Subject: Re: Problem with Packed structs
Reply-to: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Message-ID: <AEA78966EE@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  "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).