Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:49:22 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: struct problem In-Reply-To: <4t7jpi$nvl@news.rwth-aachen.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 25 Jul 1996, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > typedef struct res_hdr { > char res_sig __attribute__ ((packed)); > int res_numentries __attribute((packed)); > } res_header __attribute__((packed)); > > (The final one might even be superfluous). If memory serves, this is also > in the FAQ, isn't it? The FAQ points to the GCC docs which explain this (I obviously cannot copy large parts of the GNU docs into the FAQ), but people seem to not follow the pointers...