MB> Watcom C++ definitely aligns by default on doubleword boundaries. 
MB> I checked  the documentation and you are right that it claims to
MB> align  by default on byte boundaries, but this seems to be wrong 
MB> when checked against generated code.  I suspect that this  changed
MB> at some point in the compiler and was forgotten in  the
MB> documentation.  In my opinion, any 32-bit compiler  should default
MB> to doubleword alignment, and GCC gets a fair  amount of speed from
MB> doing so.  

Mike, Watcom (10b) defaults to byte bounds for 16 bit code - both C
and C++ - as I found out the hard way porting some MSC 6.0 sources.  I
never even looked at the 32 bit so you probably saved me some head
scratching when I try to access the old data files from the OS/2 port
:<}

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