From: paag AT tid DOT es ("Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez")
Subject: to pack or not to pack :=)
20 Dec 1996 12:07:58 -0800
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beta 17.1 still shows the same behaviour when it
finds chars in structures: it aligns the structure
to the next short boundary:

You still need the __attribute__((packed))

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>

typedef struct {
  char ch;
  short sh;
  int   i;
  long  l;
} /* __attribute__((packed)) */ test;

int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
  printf("ch @ %d\n"
	 "sh @ %d\n"
	 "i  @ %d\n"
	 "l  @ %d\n",
	 offsetof(test,ch),
	 offsetof(test,sh),
	 offsetof(test,i),
	 offsetof(test,l));
}

-------------------------------------

ch @ 0
sh @ 2
i  @ 4
l  @ 8

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