compacting objects

[Guy Pazi]

hallo,
can some one help me?

I've been trying to compact a c++ object in a VxWorks 5.2 environment.

I've used "__attribute__ ((packed))" both for each class member and for
the class as a all, but still the object size is almost as twice the
total bytes of its members.

This is a major problem for large databases. Does anyone know how to do
it right?

Thanks
Guy