Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help with C variable alignment

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

| struct head {
|     char Type[2]; /* 2 bytes */
|     long Size; /* 4 bytes */
|     short Reserved1; /* 2 bytes */
|     short Reserved2; /* 2 bytes */
|     long Bits; /* 4 bytes */
| };

[snip]

| How can I force the compiler to not pad to word boundaries?

I remember a "packed" keyword in Pascal. Not sure if the same exists in C
too. It's been four years since I did any C programming.


Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com


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