Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:23:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Troy D. Van Horn" <74617 DOT 365 AT compuserve DOT com>
Cc: DJGPP Mail List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Packed Align bug in G++ 2.7.2??
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On 8 Mar 1996, Troy D. Van Horn wrote:

>       I just discovered the reason for the problem today--I was compiling the
> program using C++.  I wrote a small test program and which uses the following
> structure from <dos.h>, and it produced different offsets when I compile to
> assembly depending on whether I use C or C++.
[snip]
>      Evendently the C++ compiler does not properly handel the
> __attribute__((packed)) command.

Yes, that's right.  This is a known GCC bug, so it won't be corrected 
until some future GCC version.