WenZhan Song @ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:33:00 -0800:
>
> Our group are using tinyos with msp430 and find the msp430-gcc compiler can
> not handle packed struct correctly. See the below code scratch and test
> results. I wonder whether this will be fixed in near future.
>
> typedef struct tTestPointer
> {
> uint8_t m;
> uint16_t k;
> uint32_t l;
> } __attribute__ ((packed)) tTestPointer;
Are you sure, you are not "caught out"?
http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/manual/x214.html
Better to look at assembler output (`gcc -S` or `objdump -S`), to make
sure C compiler is doing, what you requested.
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