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.

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