>>>>> "E" == E Weddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E> Paul Koning wrote: >> It sure would be useful, though, if there were a construct that >> does mean "pointer to packed T". In particular, I've often needed >> "pointer to packed int" and found no way to produce that. I ended >> up creating a one-member struct with a packed int inside, which is >> a syntactic nightmare. (The application was a piece of legacy >> code that was writing via int pointers, but sometimes things were >> not aligned. The fix was much more invasive than it should have >> been because I could find no way to define a pointer to packed >> int.) If there IS a way to do that, it sure would be nice for the >> docs to explain it. Right now the documentation of "packed" is >> essentially unintellegible. >> >> >> >> E> According to the docs here: E> <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type-Attributes> E> what about doing something like this?: E> ------------------------------------------- typedef int packed_int E> __attribute__ ((aligned (1))); E> packed_int *ppi; That would make sense, but it has never worked for me. It seems that attributes don't apply to type names, only to variables and members. paul
