[LCP]struct size

[Roberto Diaz]

> I've run into this before. I had a very large struct; handling each item
> individually was a real pain. Is there any way, with gcc, to force this
> to pack (ie., somestruct be 6 bytes)?  Some attribute when declaring the
> struct or a compiler option to prevent word alignment?

Yes but it is not advisable to pack.. This is a GNU extension and
non-portable. (why was it a pain to handle its items?)

 struct S {} __attribute__ ((packed));


Regards

Roberto

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