Messages in this thread | | | From | Snow Cat <> | Subject | Re: Off-topic | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:49:37 -0800 (PST) |
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Marc Lehmann once wrote: > > > >This returns a length of 6 which is what I want. Bare bones, left to > >gcc's whim, it would return a value of 8 as it quietly aligns the > >longword on a longword boundary. This IS what most people want. However, > >when you are dealing with a serial data-stream, you have to take what > >you get. Of course, you could pretend that the serial data stream was > > Remember that your program gets totally unportable, it won't even > run under linux on other architectures... >
You mean GCC is not smart enough to handle misaligned references when it sees a pointer to a packed structure? :)
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