From: "Jasper van Woudenberg" <p DOT v DOT woudenberg AT consunet DOT nl>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Struct optimizing by compiler
Date: 18 Apr 1998 14:45:37 GMT
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Hi,

When i try to define a structure, it seems that the compiler sometimes
optimizes the variables to start at a 'long' address. for example:

struct X { short X,            // (can) reserve 4 bytes for X, to get Y at
a 'long' address
           long  Y,
           short Z };

Sometimes interrupt routines return pointers to data structures in memory,
and when i copy that data into a structure like the above, the data is
corrupted, because X uses 4 bytes in stead of 2 bytes. How can i make the
compiler _always_ reserve 2 bytes for a short, 4 bytes for a long, etc.?

Jasper.