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From: terra AT diku DOT dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GCC/DJGPP Weirdness (structure padding stuff)
Date: 29 Jul 1995 14:13:01 GMT
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"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk> writes:

>  ghogenso AT u DOT washington DOT edu (Gordon Hogenson) wrote:-
>> BTW, there is a new option in gcc 2.7.0: -fpack-struct (or something
>> similar) which causes all structs to be packed, with no messing about with
>> attributes!

>Why not pack structs etc anyway by default?

Doing that just gives you problems elsewhere.



> On a PC, (rounding every member's
>width to a multiple of 2 or 4 bytes) achieves nothing except wasting store and
>annoying people who want to make a struct match some assembly-coded table (as
>e.g. when calling some interrupts).

Sorry, but that is plain and simple incorrect.  You can destroy 50%
of your computer power by misaligning in a bad case.

Morten