Re: gcc

From: Kurt Garloff (kurt@garloff.de)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 17:08:44 EST

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:04:01AM +1200, David Rundle wrote:
> hi i need help i have a data struct that matchs some hardwear but
> gcc is alignin it this meins it is out of sync whit the hardwear
> like
> char is 2 bytes
> long double is 12 bytes
> will thats what gcc thinks
>
> so i need to tell gcc not to align the data struct
>
> may be like

__attribute__((packed))

Regards,

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