From: csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br (Cesar Scarpini Rabak)
Subject: Re: FW: Re: wxwin port
11 Nov 1996 12:22:44 -0800
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At 04:19 10/11/96 -0700, Fabio Somenzi wrote:
>->Does anyone have any input on why 16 bytes from gnu-win32 and
>->14 for other compiler
>
>I believe it's because gcc enforces alignment. The two extra bytes are
>not used. I've seen it done by other compilers as well.
>
>In some applications alignment is important. For instance, a 16-byte
>structure can be aligned with the boundaries of the cache lines.
>
>Alignment may also have to do with the memory manager (reducing the
>number of buckets,) but I'm not familiar with this aspect of gcc.
>
>There may be a gcc option to enforce structure packing, but memory may
>fail me here.
>

It is not an option for the command line of gcc but rather an extension 
of C language by GNU. Look in the docs for: "__attribute__((packed))"

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