Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 17:13:51 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Why does sizeof give me...
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On  7 Aug 97 at 14:20, Brett Leslie Porter wrote:

> programs (yet!) You can probably set a compiler switch to turn off
> alignment, I'm not sure.

DON'T DO THIS!!!!!!! Yes, gcc has such a switch, however, if you use 
it, you must recompile every single library you use with this switch 
(including libc) otherwise you will get some nasty, hard to find 
bugs.

Use `__attribute__((packed))' instead.  `dos.h' in $(DJDIR)/include 
has some examples of it's usage (around line 195, struct _find_t).


Bill
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