struct __attribute((packed));

[Ralf Corsepius]

Hi,

I just tripped over this snipped below in a piece of code, I didn't
write and which I don't understand:

...
struct somestruct {
  struct entrystruct *e1 __attribute__ ((packed));
  struct entrystruct *e2 __attribute__ ((packed));
};
...

Is this meaningful?

I guess the author wanted e1 and e2 to point to a 
"packed struct entrystruct", but this doesn't seem to be what GCC
interprets this code.

Ralf