> Is it true that gcc under Linux has no compile-time option to pack 
> structures, same as EMX for OS/2?

ac> The EMX port of GCC supports structure alignment via the #pragma pack 
ac> directive (see Section 2.4 of /emx/doc/emxgnu.doc for details).  I don't 
ac> know about Linux; `man gcc' doesn't help.

The linux version supports the #pragma also.  I was wondering if there was
something easier than that though.  :-)  BFN.  Paul. 
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