On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Brian Ford wrote: > The only major difference I'm aware of is that Cygwin defaults to 8 byte > alignment for long long and double for performance reasons, while MSVC > defaults to 4 byte alignment for those types I believe.
Actually, I remebered one more difference. I think MSVC bit fields don't pack into padding holes left by variables of differing type and vice versa. Hope that helps. -- Brian Ford Staff Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/