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Subject: Re: Yet another GCC question

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 19:03:06 12/05/03

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On December 05, 2003 at 21:57:30, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Neither works unless you use GCC.
>And __attribute__ ((packed)) is one of those bletcherous GCC hacks that makes me
>want to puke.  They should have used a pragma, so you could at least _COMPILE_
>it on some other compiler.  It now becomes toxic to the Intel compiler and the
>Microsoft compiler and the SAS compiler and the DEC compiler, etc.

Why would a pragma be any better than #ifdef #else #endif? If you want it to
work on multiple compilers, wouldn't you have to do that anyway (I assume the
method of the desired alignment of structs is different on a lot of compilers)?



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