[m-rev.] for review: fix float field structure padding/packing problems

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Peter Wang wrote:

> Can someone apply this and test with MSVC and MinGW?

Shall do.  Has it been tested with clang?

> I've only tested the single precision floats on 64-bit Linux part.
>
> Would it be worth avoiding the C extensions when
> sizeof(MR_Float) == sizeof(MR_Word)?  That can't be evaluated by the C
> preprocessor, though.

The configure script could make that test and define
MR_FLOAT_IS_WORD_SIZED or something if that condition is true.

I'll review the rest later - although could you please go ahead and commit the
test case for bug #240 now.

Julien.
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