From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Struct field aligning
Date: 13 Nov 1997 20:04:16 GMT
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On 13 Nov 1997 18:40:36 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Johan Levin <johan AT technologist DOT com> wrote:

: In this case all elements of the structure becomes
: dword-aligned. That might be good for speed, but
: I'm trying to read the header of a file that doesn't
: align it's fields like this. Is it possible to disable
: this aligning for a structure?

Please refer to section 22.9 of the FAQ; it explains this in depth.
Briefly, you need to use the __attribute__ system to tell gcc to
`pack' the struct, i.e. remove all the padding.

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