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<p class="MsoNormal">> Because the alignment of a member is dependent to the position in the struct in AIX platform according to the table in <a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGH2K_13.1.2/com.ibm.xlc131.aix.doc/proguide/alignment.html">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGH2K_13.1.2/com.ibm.xlc131.aix.doc/proguide/alignment.html</a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">And on the -qalign and #pragma options, which do get used. The commercial product I work on needs to be compiled -qalign=natural on AIX, or it doesn’t work (I can explain
 the reasons if anyone's interested, but they're complex, boring, and hard to work around).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">John Dallman
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