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6.60.8 Structure-Packing Pragmas
For compatibility with Microsoft Windows compilers, GCC supports a set of #pragma
directives that change the maximum alignment of members of structures (other than zero-width bit-fields), unions, and classes subsequently defined. The n value below always is required to be a small power of two and specifies the new alignment in bytes.
#pragma pack(n)
simply sets the new alignment.#pragma pack()
sets the alignment to the one that was in effect when compilation started (see also command-line option -fpack-struct[=n] see Code Gen Options).#pragma pack(push[,n])
pushes the current alignment setting on an internal stack and then optionally sets the new alignment.#pragma pack(pop)
restores the alignment setting to the one saved at the top of the internal stack (and removes that stack entry). Note that#pragma pack([n])
does not influence this internal stack; thus it is possible to have#pragma pack(push)
followed by multiple#pragma pack(n)
instances and finalized by a single#pragma pack(pop)
.
Some targets, e.g. x86 and PowerPC, support the ms_struct
#pragma
which lays out a structure as the documented __attribute__ ((ms_struct))
.
#pragma ms_struct on
turns on the layout for structures declared.#pragma ms_struct off
turns off the layout for structures declared.#pragma ms_struct reset
goes back to the default layout.
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