Re: [lwip-users] Struct packing/alignment problems

[K.J. Mansley]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 01:04, Timmy Brolin wrote:
> Mandatory 
> alignment would render all those STRUCT_PACK macros unnecessary, 
> resulting in cleaner code, and significantly increased portability (ANSI 
> C conformant, no alignment problem, and no need to define architecture 
> specific struct packing macros)

Padding of the start of the struct does not guarantee the alignment of
subsequent elements in that struct, so the packing is still required.

Kieran