Re: [rtl] off topic

[Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>]

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Lichius <Alexander.Lichius@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

 Alexander> Hi i have a question not really regarding rtlinux in
 Alexander> special. we have to communicate with our a/d adaptor which
 Alexander> is realtime capable on its own. the problem is that the
 Alexander> task which is installed directly on the adaptors cpu was
 Alexander> compiled under DOS/WINDOWS. The task running on the pc
 Alexander> (now under linux) was compiled with egcs - which has a
 Alexander> 4-byte alignment in contrast to the 1-byte alignment from
 Alexander> DOS compilers....

You need __attribute__ ((packed)) on your structures.  Look in the
info file, under "C extensions", "Variable attributes".

     paul