RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?

[Jonathan Shapiro]

In article <8314 at sybase.sybase.com> carlw at mercury.UUCP (carl weidling) writes:
>	Why not have a PRE-processor directive that will re-arrange the
>fields in a structure to maximize efficiency one way or the other?

Yuck.  If this problem is worth solving, it is worth solving right.

Jon