From: Michael Uplawski <uplawski AT sulla DOT franken DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Generous SIZEOF
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:18:55 +0200
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DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall) wrote:

>The compiler is rounding up the size of the structure to the nearest
>four byte boundary, so that accesses are more efficient (particularly
>when using an array of structures).
>
>If you want to prevent this, declare the structure with attribute
>packed eg:
(...)
>} __attribute__((packed));
>struct CD All[MAX];

Needless or not, THANK YOU! :-)

I am rather sure, that I would have otherwise waited a long time for
this tip to come along.

MIchael.
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