From:	Lee_Westlake AT TaliadonSystems DOT fsbusiness DOT co DOT uk (Lee Westlake)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Padding structures to dword boundaries
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:31:34 GMT
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Does anyone know how to prevent djgpp from padding structures to dword
boundaries?

for example:

typedef struct
{
 short width;
 short height;
 char data1;
 char data2;
 char data3;
}mystruct;

has a byte size of 8 not 7.

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