Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese <at> indel.ch> writes:
> >You'd lose that memory anyway if the compiler aligns it himself.
>
> I overlooked the packed requirement, but in that case you can just turn
> it around:
>
> struct {
> unsigned char dummy[7]; // for 8 byte alignment
> unsigned char count;
> struct something_else_t array[];
> }
>
> Align the struct to 8 bytes and you have your array aligned to 8 bytes.
Yes ... but that wastes a bit of storage, especially if you have several
thousand of these structures, and need to align to 32byte ...
As I can say "align this to 16 byte", I thought I'll ask whether I can say
"align this to 15 (module 16) byte", and maybe get the linker to use the space
before that for some odd data (like ASCIIZ-strings).
Well, thanks anyway.
Regards,
Phil
