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In article <30c84575.17614502@news.toplink.de>,
Friedemann Baitinger <baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de> wrote:
 >how can i instruct the gcc compiler to generate packed structures?
 >
 >#define BYTE1 unsigned char
 >#define BYTE2 unsigned short
 >#define BYTE4 unsigned long
 >
 >typedef struct {
 >    BYTE2 b21;
 >    BYTE2 b22;
 >    BYTE2 b23;
 >    BYTE4 b41;
 >} some_t;
 >
 >in this example, i always get a two byte gap between b23 and b41.
 >sizeof(some_t) evaluates to 12 instead of 10.

Did you read the man page? Try -mno-strict-align, it might do the trick.
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