From: crispen AT hiwaay DOT net (Bob Crispen)
Subject: Re: FW: Re: wxwin port
12 Nov 1996 18:41:43 -0800
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Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

>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

>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))"

Now you know why I like Ada: it puts stuff where you tell it.
The first compiler I saw that had the padding problem was the
C compiler that came with SunOS 4.0.3 for the SPARC.  I'm not
sure if there was a way to force "wrong" alignment with that
compiler, but good old Ada did it like a champ.  If you've
ever seen the disassembly of the RISC machine code you get
when you force a load from the "wrong" boundary, it looks
pretty amusing.

Bob Crispen
crispen AT hiwaay DOT net
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