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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Travis Bauer wrote:

> The reason I discovered this is that I am writing code that needs to 
> be able to write data into oilday as a void pointer.  In Borland's 
> Turbo C++, the structures had no extra bytes so I could calculate the 
> field positions in the variable as offsets from the base address of 
> oilday.  But with the extra bytes in the structure, the calculation 
> does not hold true.

You can tell the compiler to not align struct fields by using the 
__attribute__((packed)) extension of gcc; look it up in the Info docs.

There is also the macro offsetof() which could help you to compute the 
byte offset of each field in the struct.  This is ANSI C feature, so if 
you can use it to overcome your problems, I think it's better.

Btw, your mailer seems to be badly set up: the headers come out messed up 
to such a degree that my mailer couldn't figure them out and I had to 
manually insert the addresses and the subject.