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Dear Sir,

Our project involves conversion of RT S/W , that was previously developed
for 
Intel 386/486 CPU under Intel's RMK O.S. and compiled  with Intel's iC386
compiler.
The iC386 compiler has a special "noalign" flag (and also a similar #pragma)
that we used to instruct it to set all structures and variables to 
non-aligned addresses (packed) and handle them correctly.

We are currently working on converting the above S/W to new environments:
A. Sun 4 (Classic/LX) with Sun-O.S.
B. Motorola 68302 with VRTXsa O.S.

We are working with GNU (gcc) version 2.5.7 . We could not find any
compilation
flag or any other mean to instruct the compiler to make the same global 
non-aligned (packed) structures in all modules.
We tried to use your: "   __attribute__ ((packed)) "  but we could not use 
it on typedefs but only on structure sub-fields. It also involves a lot of 
changes to the S/W code .


1. Is there a way to globally use non-aligned variables & structures?

2. Any special notes that we should be aware of for builing and using gcc 
   for motorola 68302 based target ??


                                                                            
                                                   with thanks,
                                                
                                                Rafi Dar
                                                ECI Telecom
                                                Email: raphi@ecitele.com
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