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From: Shawn Hargreaves <slh100 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: __alignement__ in v2b5
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:22:41 +0000
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> struct TestStruct
>   {
>   char var1;
>   short var2  __attribute__ ((packed));
>   };
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this program produces:
> 
> sizeof(TestStruct): 4

You specified that the short (var2) is packed, but didn't say anything 
about the char var1. I would imagine that giving both fields the packed 
attribute would produce the expected size of 3.


Shawn Hargreaves                        If God is omnipotent, can he make a
http://www.york.ac.uk/~slh100/          rock so heavy that he cannot lift it?