Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!hound!rkl1
From: rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Overzealous alignment and padding
Message-ID: <2687@hound.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 17:40:06 GMT
References: <410@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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	The best way is to align the structure yourself!  Sounds as if
you have structures where the first field is a 'char', so you don't
know how the compiler will align it.  So don't make the first field a
char...maybe you might have to insert a dummy 'int' field if all you
have are 'char' fields.  Alternatively, you could use a *union* of an
'int' with your structure of 'char' fields.

	What you're doing is allowing the *compiler* to decide how to
align instead of *telling* the compiler how to align...

--rkl