From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: to pack or not to pack :=) 22 Dec 1996 13:27:39 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612221320.AAA00207.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text Original-To: paag@tid.es.\i (Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com (gnu-win32) In-Reply-To: <32BA7571.69EE@tid.es> from "Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez" at Dec 20, 96 12:16:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez, you wrote: > > beta 17.1 still shows the same behaviour when it > finds chars in structures: it aligns the structure > to the next short boundary: Yes, that's a feature of gcc. > You still need the __attribute__((packed)) Only if you want to pack structures, which is generally bad for performance. What's your point? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".