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From: "Daniel." <danielhilst@gmail.com>
Subject: Does __attribute__((__packed__)) aplies to types or variables?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:56:29 -0200
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Suppose that I have a declaration:

struct __attribute__((__packed__)) foo {
  char ch;
  int number;
};

Will be any variable of this type be packed?

The real world thing is: I have a code that come up from 8bit world,
with a lot of lots of chained structures that are transferred throght
some radio frequence module, I need be sure that all this structs have
no padding so that they can be transferred as they are to radio. To
achieve this I've
putted __attribute__((__packed__)) to every struct and inner struct
that are sended through RF,
but I read at some StackOverflow post that packed attribute aplies to
variables not to types,
so I came here ask to experts. Is that true?

At gcc manual I found Type Attributes and Variable attributes, so I'm
assuming both exists how differentiate from one to another?

Regards,

-- 
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