From: Natasha and Don <fstcns AT lux DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: packed data structures?
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 17:17:49 +1100
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John Panettiere wrote:
> 
> Hello, all.
> 
> ... realized that djgpp wasn't packing the data structures - so I browsed
> the info files and found "__attribute__((packed))", which seemed to be
> the answer I was looking for. 

Hmm I suspect that your problem is that you are using C++,
__attribute__ ((packed)) only seems to work for C. I have exactly
the same problem myself and am thinking of using bitfields (barf)!

Does any one else have any ideas?

Don.