From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: structures size
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Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 23:43:01 GMT
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On Sat, 06 May 2000 17:41:46 +0400, "Alexei A. Frounze"
<alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:

>Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
>> I prefer "__attribute__((packed))" myself on the actual structure, 

This only works if your header is never #include'd in a C++ program.

>AFAIK it must be added to each structure member and that is not very nice.

Is this a bit nicer?

#define PACKED __attribute__((packed))

typedef struct Foo
{
  short bar PACKED;
  long baz PACKED;
} Foo;

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