behaviour of _attribute__ ((packed))

Hi,

last weekend I tried Sun Studio Express and its compatibility with gcc.

I found out that cc will parse something like this:

typedef struct {

int a;

char b;

} __attribute__ ((packed)) my_t;

just fine, but will not pack the structure. Of course, there is #pragma pack(1) and #pragma pack(), but the fact that the packed attribute is being silently ignored makes some programs compilable by gcc non-portable to Sun Studio.

Are there any plans to make this attribute actually function?

Thanks,

Jakub

[568 byte] By [Jakuba] at [2007-11-27 4:52:11]