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by **John Ph** » Sat, 01 May 1999 04:00:00

Is it possible to force gcc to odd byte alignment?

For example, if I had the following code fragment:

typedef struct {
char element_1;
int element_2;

Quote:} test_struct;

main()
{
test_struct x;
printf("sizeof(x)=%d", sizeof(x));

Quote:}

Is there any gcc compilation switch that will cause sizeof(x) to
return a 5 instead of 8 bytes?

I've looked through the gcc man pages and it doesn't look like
it supports odd byte alignment. Can someone confirm.

Thanks,

John

by **Neil Ricke** » Sat, 01 May 1999 04:00:00

>Is it possible to force gcc to odd byte alignment?
>For example, if I had the following code fragment:
>typedef struct {
> char element_1;
> int element_2;
>} test_struct;
>main()
>{
> test_struct x;
> printf("sizeof(x)=%d", sizeof(x));
>}
>Is there any gcc compilation switch that will cause sizeof(x) to
>return a 5 instead of 8 bytes?

Suppose you could do this. Then somebody uses malloc() to
dynamically allocate such a structure. Since malloc() does not give
segments with odd alignment, you will have misaligned data, and on
some system this will give bus errors.

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Forcing gcc to odd byte alignment?

Forcing gcc to odd byte alignment?

Forcing gcc to odd byte alignment?