Lpc2000

Hello Tom,

> No, it is the exact reason you declare a structure to be packed.

What I meant to do is have all members in the structure to be packed
relative to each other (i.e. no padding between the fields), but
aligning the first member to its "natural alignment".

Most of this is due to libraries that are supposed to be portable and
that deal with file/protocol formats. I guess I started seeing
__attribute__((packed)) and the equivalent on other compilers as a
magic "fix all my problems" solution.

Thanks,
Thiadmer