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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 23:24:41 -0500
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From: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor)
Subject: disable structure packing with gcc?
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I'm writing a byte-swapping routine for structures in gcc 2.4.5 (FreeBSD
1.1.5.1).  gcc insists on packing structures, and I do not fully understand
the packing method it uses.

How can I turn off structure packing (to get to single byte alignment)?


-Mark Taylor
mtaylor@cybernet.com