PACK Compiler Directive

• The compiler generates considerably more code to access byte-aligned or half-word-aligned objects. For this reason, PACK(1) and PACK(2) should be used only when absolutely necessary.

#pragma pack(1)     /* byte alignment */

struct s1  {
  int  i1;     // i1 has offset 0
  char c1;     // c1 has offset 4
  int  i2;     // i2 has offset 5
  char c2;     // c2 has offset 9
  int  i3;     // i3 has offset 10
  char z1;     // z1 has offset 14
};

#pragma pack()    /* reset to default alignment */

struct s2  {
  int  i1;     // i1 has offset 0
  char c1;     // c1 has offset 4
  int  i2;     // i2 has offset 8
  char c2;     // c2 has offset 12
  int  i3;     // i3 has offset 16
  char z1;     // z1 has offset 20
};