On 4 March 2011 14:13, Jochen Wilhelmy <j.wilhelmy at arcor.de> wrote: > I know therefore in this case %I has to tailpadded. but packing and > tailpadding are different > things, aren't they? in a packet type {i8, i32} the i32 type has offset 1 > while in a non-tailpadded > type it still has offset 4. True. cheers, --renato