> Oh- I didn't mean to sound critical... The point here is that you don't
> control what the compiler does for structure padding and alignment. If you
> *do* have a structure that 'just works' great- if you don't (and I guess
> that you don't if you're getting alignment faults- or have I been a real
> bonehead here?)- then you have to have something that will do the
> structure translation for you (XDR).
I'm pretty sure it works fine as long as the struct starts at an
aligned address.  My worries were for the case when it doesn't.

        -- Lennart