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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!moose.slac.stanford.edu!user
  2. From: John_Shepardson.esh@qmail.slac.stanford.edu (John Shepardson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: byte alignment problem
  5. Message-ID: <John_Shepardson.esh-210892102752@moose.slac.stanford.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Aug 92 17:17:48 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug17.233739.19308@athena.cs.uga.edu>
  8. Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
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  14. In article <1992Aug17.233739.19308@athena.cs.uga.edu>,
  15. kinsey@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Kinsey) wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > a quick question:
  18. > 
  19. >     if given a struct { char a; long b;} x;, what is the best method
  20. >     to create a buffer that contains 'a' followed by 'b' WITHOUT the
  21. >     implicit padding within the struct.
  22.  
  23. Think C will not add the pad byte within a struct. I can't say about other
  24. compilers.
  25.  
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  28. John_Shepardson.esh@qmail.slac.stanford.edu
  29.