Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:23:05 -0500

Dalesio, Leo wrote:

Is there a compiler switch on the GNU compiler to turn off the RISC byte alignment?

Define the specific structure you want with the gcc-specific syntax
__attribute__((packed). You do that like this:
struct foo {
  char a;
  short b __attribute__((packed));
  int c __attribute__((packed));
};
I think you can also put the attribute on the structure itself (after the
closing {}) to pack all fields together.
Variable attributes in gcc are described here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html
HTH,
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System