Re: packing structures

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 17:44

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DLetcher@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu writes:

>     I'm using g++ on an Intel 486 with UnixWare.  How can I pack my data 
>     structures to get rid of the hidden spaces caused by field alignment?

Look up "align" in the index of the GNU C manual.

>     I'm trying to share information with an existing DOS application.  It 
>     would be easier to read data in blocks than to try and parse 
>     individual fields from a buffer.

It would also be less portable.

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Fergus Henderson                     fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU

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