structure members of packed structures

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 15, 2003, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

>> Another question. What about
>> struct __attribute__((packed)) Foo
>> {
>> T m;
>> };
>> 
>> here m happens to fall at an aligned address, and the size of Foo happens
>> to be a multiple of that alignment. Should m be DECL_PACKED or not?

> I say yes.

Does this mean T needs packed ctors, dtor and member functions?  Are
they implicitly generated from the non-packed ones, or must the user
define them explicitly?

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