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		danellis on Jan 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Lost Art of C Structure Packing __attribute__((packed)) in GCC is probably worth mentioning if you only want to apply it to selected structs.

YZF on Jan 1, 2014 [–]

#pragma pack(push)

#pragma pack(1)

MSVC

pjscott on Jan 1, 2014 | | [–]

GCC also supports that pragma, for compatibility with MSVC:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Structure-Packing-Pragmas....

Clang has this, too.

userbinator on Jan 2, 2014 | | | [–]

And MSVC doesn't support GCC's pragma, so for optimal portability #pragma pack(1) is my preferred way of doing it.

eps on Jan 1, 2014 | | [–]

#pragma pack(push, 1) // :)

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