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Hi,

Does anyone know the command line option for Packing Structures under
gcc?  For example, the following structure normally takes up 8 bytes
of storage because gcc by default try to allign each element of the
structure on a double word boundary:

struct {        // should only take up 5 bytes
  char  x;      // 1 byte
  int   y;      // 4 bytes

Quote:}

How do I turn this feature off?
Thanks for your help on this.

Khanh Doan

Quote:>Hi,

>Does anyone know the command line option for Packing Structures under
>gcc?  For example, the following structure normally takes up 8 bytes
>of storage because gcc by default try to allign each element of the
>structure on a double word boundary:

>struct {    // should only take up 5 bytes
>  char      x;      // 1 byte
>  int       y;      // 4 bytes
>}

>How do I turn this feature off?
>Thanks for your help on this.

>Khanh Doan

Try the following:

#ifdef __GCC__
#  define PACKED __attribute__((packed))
#else
#  define PACKED
#endif
struct structname {     // should only take up 5 bytes
  char  x PACKED;       // 1 byte
  int   y PACKED;       // 4 bytes

Quote:};

Now, if you want an array of this struct of which the individual members
are _also_ not aligned you'd also say:

struct structname a_struct[10] PACKED;  // Takes up 50 bytes.

Oh, I got this magic from a few hints in /usr/include/linux/sysv_fs.h :)

Hope this helps, Mike.
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