I thought you were simply looking for code portability. You must never send a binary stucture across a network. Even if you get the sizes correct, you'll have endian problems when running different architectures (PC vs Mac). You must manually ship the data bytes in a defined order and reconstruct it at the other end. At that point, it doesn't matter what the padding or for different compilers (or the order) is because you won't be sending the padding - just the data.
Never block transfer a structure by providing a pointer and size, there is simply no way for that to work cross-platform. Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
