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From: pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help with C between 68000 & 80286
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.070012.13007@funet.fi>
Date: 6 Aug 90 07:00:12 GMT
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From article <Aug.5.14.43.00.1990.26343@pilot.njin.net>, by lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski):
> 
> It appears I have successfully made functions to convert int and long
> int to the correct format and the numbers are correct.  I am still
> having problems with other types.
>
	In addition to byte order, also alignment can cause problems.

	For example

	struct x {
		int i;
		char x;
		int z;
	};

	is possible to allocate:

	long, byte, dymmy-byte, long	( 68000 32-bit compiler )
	word, byte, dummy-byte, word	( 68000 16-bit compiler )
	word, byte, word		( 80286 16-bit compiler )

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