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Subject: Re: Cygwin struct alignment
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:35:11 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Ford"
Subject: Re: Cygwin struct alignment
>
> Google attribute packed as I don't remember the exact syntax, but I fail
> to see how this actually helps your cause.
>
Thanks Brian.  It should help me because it will hopefully guarantee that
structures of a given size will occupy a predictable number of bytes.  In
other words, if the total bytes needed to accommodate a given struct's
members is 138, the struct should occupy exactly 138 bytes - instead of
being rounded up to 140 or whatever.

After googling, I think the relevant compiler switch is -fpack-struct.  I'll
give it a try tomorrow but from my initial test (just compiling one source
file) it produced hundreds of warnings of the type:-

ignoring packed attribute on unpacked non-POD field.

This seems to be generated for simple, conventional arrays, such as
char myArray[64];

Is there anything available to suppress this warning?

John 


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