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From: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: The importance of alignment on a VAX
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Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 20:06:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 23 20:06:17 1985
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In article <9339@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:

> What I was complaining about was that
>there was no feature for defeating it even on machines like the VAX where
>the hardware will support it easily.  It would be nice to read structures
>from other machines (like PDP-11's) sometime.
>
>-Ron

  So C needs something like the Pascal keyword `packed'. (hee hee)


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