Subject: Re: B19: -fpack-struct dows not work
From: [email-masked] (Jean-Francois Morcillo)

3 Jul 1998 09:52:41 -0700
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To: Sergey Udaltsov <[email-masked]>
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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:

> Dear sirs:
> 
> We've tryed to compile the following lines using gcc:
> 
> struct s
> {
>   char c;
>   long l;
> };

I think it's right because of memory alignement. Normaly long are place at
memory address multiple of 4. So there is a hole of 3 bytes between c and
l in memory. May be with the paked attribute the compiler does'nt do the
same alignements?

 > > using option -fpack-struct.
> sizeof (s) returned 8. Is it right?
> 
> When I added __attribute__ ((packed)), sizeof(s) became 5.
> So, for now the command-line option does not work the same way as struct
> attribute.
> 
> Platform: CYGWIN32 B19 / NT4.0
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sergey V. Udaltsov
> 
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