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> >   which means common storage, byte aligned. Ahem. I though structs
> >   were supposed to be ALDOUBLE always? I mean, w/o pragma packed?
> 
> No.  They only need to be aligned suitably for type `foo' if they have
> members with type `foo'.  `struct sockaddr' only has members with type
> char or u_char, so it doesn't need much alignment, and happens not to
> get it.

Shows my rustiness. The Portable C compiler aligned structures based upon a
manifest constant- ALDOUBLE.

-matt



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