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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:53:22 +0200
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
Organization: Anubex N.V.
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
CC: lunarorb AT hn DOT vnn DOT vn
Subject: Re: BIG problem with structure alignment!
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Lunar wrote:
> 
> I've read the FAQ. It says if I add an "-fpack-struct" command line option,
> GCC will not align the struct. But in fact, when I try that, sizeof() still
> report 4 bytes as it did before.
> Can you help, please?

With some versions of gcc (including recent DJGPP packages), you can use
a
MSVC-like pragma:

#pragma pack(push, 1)

struct mystruct {
  char mychar;
  short myshort;
} mystructvar;

#pragma pack(pop)

This is a bit cleaner than having to append an __attribute__ tag to
each field.

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Tim Van Holder - Anubex N.V.
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