structure members of packed structures

[Nathan Sidwell]

Given,

struct Unpacked {  int i; };

struct  __attribute__ ((packed)) Packed
{
   char c;
   Unpacked u;
};

where should 'u' be placed? Our current behavour is to pack it so that
Unpacked's members are unaligned.

options
1) continue this behaviour, but prevent taking references/address of u or
any of its members.
2) force u to be aligned (ignoring the packed attribute).


nathan

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