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From: "Rupert Wood" <me@rupey.net>
To: "'Bruno Aulagner'" <bruno.aulagner@libertysurf.fr>
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Subject: RE: GCC
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:13:00 -0000
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Bruno Aulagner wrote:

> I'm new to Linux and GCC, and I need to compile a code with a 1 byte
> structure alignment... I found no options allowing this... 
> How can I do it ?

You can add __attribute__((packed)) to a structure definition

    http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html

I don't think there's a switch to do this globally (or at least I don't
see one).

Rup.