Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:16:48 +0500 (MVT) From: Prashant TR To: Groman cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Data padding? In-Reply-To: <00010709142100.00453@yahoo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Groman wrote: > I have a struct...and I need djgpp to leave it the way I declare it without > any padding or aligning it to machine words... > > for example > > struct Lalala { > unsigned int testing1; > unsigned char testing2; > unsigned short testing3; > unsigned char testing 4; > } Use struct Lalala { unsigned int testing1 __attribute__ ((packed)); unsigned char testing2 __attribute__ ((packed)); unsigned short testing3 __attribute__ ((packed)); unsigned char testing 4 __attribute__ ((packed)); } Prashant --------------------------------------------------- One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.