Re: [avr-chat] ?Optimized eeprom?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 16 June 2006 23:26, Bob Paddock wrote:
> > The only reliable, repeatable and maintainable (i.e., without manually
> > specifying each address) way to get consistent addresses is to put all
> > your eeprom data into a single struct.  It's best to make sure that any
> > padding involved is explicit (using the "-wpadded" warning).

I don't have the original email so I'm replying to this reply..
WRT packing you can tell GCC to not pack a particular data structure like so..
typedef struct _foo_t {
        int     a;
        char    b;
        float   c;
} __attribute__ ((packed)) foo_t;

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