Hey, Andrew;

I have a few more messages in MUFFIN from the weekend that I want to
respond to, but I think this was important enough to jump in on.

#pragma lines are not to be used with GNU C. The correct syntax is (IIRC)

struct
{
  stuff;
} mystruct_t __attribute__((packed, align(2));

You can see many examples of this in the Maximus source, it was required in
order to be able to read FTSC packets, etc. The above example aligns on
16-bit boundaries, which is what FTSC-0001 packets are aligned as. So most
alignment changes I made in max/squish were done this way.   It's also how
I did a few other structs, ipc%02x.bbs, etc.

Tweaking the alignment parameters properly should allow us to read the
structs directly from disk into memory on little-endian machines. This is
adequate for the current version, but in the long run, we're still going to
need per-struct read routines, to support big-endian platforms.

Wes

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