25 Nov 96 00:26, Paul Edwards wrote to All:

 > Can someone tell me what the deal is with structure padding?

 > Does it apply to structures when they are DEFINED or when they are 
 > USED?

When they are defined.

 > I was wondering whether this was universal?

I imagine so.

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

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

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