Lpc2000

Thiadmer Riemersma (ITB CompuPhase) wrote:

>>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".
>>    
>>
>
>I just found my error. I was declaring structs as:
>
>	typedef struct tagMYSTRUCT {
>		long member1   __attribute__((packed));
>		short member2  __attribute__((packed));
>		short member3  __attribute__((packed));
>	} __attribute__((packed)) MYSTRUCT;
>
>What I *should* have done is to apply the __attribute__((packed)) to
>the individual members, bot *not* to the structure as a whole.
>
>  
>
:-)  Sometimes ya' just gotta look at the code. 

Cheers!

TomW


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