On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:30:06AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> It turns out that the reason for the difference between NetBSD and linux 
> is that on linux, structures are, by default, aligned to a 32-bit 
> boundary, even if they are composed solely of elements with less alignment 
> than that.  On netbsd, structures are aligned to a byte boundary if no 
> field within the structure requires a larger alignement.  Hence
> 
> #pragma pack(1)

Are you sure the Lignux compiler isn't just ignored the #pragma?  AFAIK
it's always been silently ignored on platforms that don't support it.