In article <11989 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >To do it you need to be able to align `data_area' above, True. >which is why we need some sort of standard <align.h> header. Nah, the application can do this itself (it might be overly conservative, but the amount of wasted space would be small). (Hint: use a union.)