From: utzoo!decvax!cca!HOLSTEGE@Cit-20@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: siaeof/alignment Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3054 Posted: Wed Sep 1 19:24:15 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 04:21:22 1982 Date: 27 Aug 1982 1404-PDT I guess what I would like to see added to C to allow arbitrary structuring of data is some kind of "packed" qualifier as in Pascal. Then packed struct { int a; char b; } really would be 5 bytes. For machines that aren't byte addressable, operating on this kind of data might involve overhead, but procedures pack and unpack a la Pascal can be used. -------