On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:07:43PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I'm pretty sure it works fine with gcc 2.95.x as well -- for Alpha it used > to, even with such antiques as egcs 1.1.2. > > Ralf, I can see 2.6 already does the right thing -- I suppose you won't > mind me backporting (copying?) it? I certainly won't. I think the 2.4 implementation was originally written necessary upto egcs 1.0 which were generating correct but very inefficient code for __attribute((packed)). Ralf