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On 2009-03-26 10:12Z, Mikael Normark wrote:
> I addedd __attrubute__((packed)) to both structures and that made it
> all work as supposed to. Adding "packed" to the sample_pkg_t only
> saved 2 bytes, adding it to sample_t saved the rest down to 396 so
> obviously that structure is poorly aligned.
> The ultimate solution would be to use an aligned structure intstead of
> working around the problem like above, but this is good enough for me
> at this point.

This is a general C FAQ, and not a Cygwin issue--but using fread()
and fwrite() with structs is inherently not portable:
  http://c-faq.com/struct/io.html
and there's no guarantee it'll work even with two different versions
of the same compiler.

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