The importance of alignment on a VAX

[Alexis Dimitriadis]

In article <9339 at brl-tgr.ARPA> ron at brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:

> What I was complaining about was that
>there was no feature for defeating it even on machines like the VAX where
>the hardware will support it easily.  It would be nice to read structures
>from other machines (like PDP-11's) sometime.
>
>-Ron

  So C needs something like the Pascal keyword `packed'. (hee hee)


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