Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 09:17:14 BST
From: devitto AT ferndown DOT ate DOT slb DOT com
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net
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?
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[ Don't write out structs using write/fwrite (ie as binary), it's unportable. ]

1) Read each field individually.
2) Read n records into memory, then copy the fields into the gcc structs.
   [ a little faster than (1) ]

Dom