From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: to pack or not to pack :=)
22 Dec 1996 13:27:39 -0800
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Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez, you wrote:
> 
> beta 17.1 still shows the same behaviour when it
> finds chars in structures: it aligns the structure
> to the next short boundary:

Yes, that's a feature of gcc.

> You still need the __attribute__((packed))

Only if you want to pack structures, which is generally
bad for performance.


What's your point?

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