Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 16:16:46 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Fread


> Allright.  It seems that GCC pads it's structs with extra bytes in
> order to get proper alignment of it's long words.  This is all very
> fine and good, until I want to go and fread a structure written by a
> programme compiled with some other compiler.  Any suggestions?

Use __attribute__((packed)).  See the gcc info files.