packed, aligned

[Mike Stump]

> To: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>
> Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
> Date: 11 Feb 2001 11:20:26 +0000

> Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> writes:

> > Why would someone want to pack a struct and still have some padding in the
> > end?

> So that in an array of structures, each structure starts on an
> appropriate boundary. 

And byte aligned structures need only byte aligned boundaries, which
means zero padding.  All structures can be changed to be byte aligned
by the addition of attributes.