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Re: __attribute__ ((packed))

>Actually I should qualify my response.  This looks like a patch that was
>submitted to the glibc source by myself or Phil Blundell.  It fixed a problem
>Jim Pick had found in glibc.  Some of the code in glibc depended on
>sizeof(Elf_External_Versym) being 2.  This may not be the case in GDB.

That's correct.  The header file that was changed is actually part of BFD and 
it's shared between GDB and GAS.  Whether GDB actually uses the affected 
routines or not I don't know.

p.