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Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:26 am
by Friend
Hi,
I need to know how I can create a packed structure in GCC, ie. it only has as many bytes as needed.
thanks.
Re:Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:04 pm
by Okiesmokie
typedef struct {
/* Code here */
} __attribute__((packed));
Re:Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:20 pm
by sonneveld
make sure you're not using this packed structure to read in data from a file.. cause it's very iffy. you're better off just reading in each byte to make sure you have the correct endian.
- Nick
Re:Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 8:45 pm
by Friend
With this would I put the name of the structure before __attribute__ ((packed)) like below?
typedef struct {
/* Code here */
} struct_name __attribute__((packed));
thanks.
Re:Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 11:20 am
by Okiesmokie
I dont think it really matters, i put my struct names after the __attribute__((packed))
Re:Packed Strcutures in GCC
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 7:54 am
by Tim
Also, this seems to work on both gcc and the Microsoft compiler:
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#pragma pack(push, 1) /* use 1, 2, 4, etc. */
struct your_structure
{
};
#pragma pack(pop)