Struct packing and alignment with mingw

Question

I am emulating code from an embedded system (stm32, Keil µVision 5, MDK-ARM) on a PC (mingw32, 32bit arch). The alignment of the ARM compiler does not match my desktop m

Answer 1

attribute packed is broken on mingw32 compilers. Another option is to use pragma pack:

#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct _file
{
  uint8_t var1;
  uint16_t var2;
} FILE;