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21 years ago

Alignment of structures

Hello, I know that this is very basic question which is not only relating to Nios. In the web and in the documentation of GCC I didn’t find a satisfactory answer. Will a structure like the...
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21 years ago

You cannot rely on that. Compilers can and do align things as they see fit, and this could change in future revisions of the compiler. You need to look in the GCC documenation for the aligned attribute.