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To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>You will also need to support alignment
>>and structure packing primitives, so device driver code does not
>>have to be rewritten as pure assembly.
> IIRC packing is already present and I expect alignment to be
> there as well, but cannot recall if I used it before.

from compiler options:
-zp[{1,2,4,8,16}]
set minimal structure packing (member alignment)

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