On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:41:39AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:

> Now, as far as having a packed attribute flag in cdefs.h, we might
> want to consider using "#pragma pack" as opposed to an attribute that
> might be required to appear in different places in the struct's
> definition on different compilers.  "#pragma pack" is much more widely
> supported, and would cause the compile to fail (a good thing!) if
> packed structs aren't provided by the compiler.

aren't #pragmas are by definition compiler-specific?

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