Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:57:21 -0300
Message-Id: <9704101957.AA25116@eed.miee.ru>
From: "Oleg Yu. Polyanski" <luke AT eed DOT miee DOT ru>
To: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with Packed structs
In-Reply-To: <6604EA689A@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
References: <6604EA689A AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>

Anthony Appleyard writes:
 > On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Mark T Logan wrote:
 > > I have a slight problem with the way that DJGPP packs its structs. ...
 > 
 >   "Adrian Gh. Oboroc aka AsH / DEVOTiON" <oboroc AT usm DOT md> wrote:-
 > > You might want to use '#pragma pack' method:
 > > 
 > > #pragma pack(1)
 > > struct Heroin           ////// Lets keep this stuff out of it!!!!!!!
 > > {
 > > 	char dealer[100];
 > > 	int quality;
 > > 	double weight;
 > > }
 > > #pragma pack()
 > > 
 > > but guys from FSF, who develops GCC, don't like pragmas, thus you'll get
 > > some warnings at compilation stage.
 > 
 >   and thus you likely won't get any packing effect either. I put
 >     #define pk __attribute__((packed))
 >   at the start of my programs, so it is easy to put `pk' before every `;'
 > inside the struct {brackets}.

	.... or add -fpack-struct option to gcc.

-- 
Sincerely yours, necrofriend.