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Subject: Re: How to align members/data under gcc/DJGPP?
From: Niklas_Pson AT nosmam DOT hotmail DOT com (Niklas Pettersson)
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AYeryomin AT excelsior-usa DOT com (Alex Yeryomin) wrote in 
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Hello

I don't know exactly why you want to align but if the reason is to read 
from a file with a specified layout, I recommend to read into a character 
buffer and then fetch each variable in turn. In that way, it's easier to 
swap endianess and so on. 

/ Niklas



>Hello,
>
>I can't find in FAQ (sorry, maybe I missed it), how to align struct
>members under gcc/DJGPP? What is pragma/option doing this? Is there
>some way to specify the alignment only for some piece of code like
>this:
>
><- set alignment by 1 byte here to pack all members altogether. how?
>struct zzz
>{
>...
>};
><- reset alignment to default. how?
>
>
>Is it possible to align also data object (variables) into the memory?
>F.e., all variables should be alignment by the paragraph 16 bytes.
>How?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Alex