Lpc2000

Dear lpc2000,

In the Keil LPC2148 USB examples, EP0 buffer is declared as a byte array
BYTE  EP0Buf[USB_MAX_PACKET0];

but later it is type cast to the packed word array
*((__packed WORD *)EP0Buf) = 0;

I don't understand how the pointer EP0Buf would be changed by casting
it to the __packed word pointer. Is anyone able to explain the
function of the type cast to me so I can write a GCC equivalent (where
the type cast to a packed type is not supported)?

Thanks,

Nic