----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Ford"
Subject: Re: Cygwin struct alignment
Google attribute packed as I don't remember the exact syntax, but I fail
to see how this actually helps your cause.
Thanks Brian. It should help me because it will hopefully guarantee that
structures of a given size will occupy a predictable number of bytes. In
other words, if the total bytes needed to accommodate a given struct's
members is 138, the struct should occupy exactly 138 bytes - instead of
being rounded up to 140 or whatever.
After googling, I think the relevant compiler switch is -fpack-struct. I'll
give it a try tomorrow but from my initial test (just compiling one source
file) it produced hundreds of warnings of the type:-
ignoring packed attribute on unpacked non-POD field.
This seems to be generated for simple, conventional arrays, such as
char myArray[64];
Is there anything available to suppress this warning?
John
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