From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: structure packing/allingment
30 Apr 1998 11:40:30 -0700
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No good #pragma pack(8) dosen't
work even with the change below, 
but the good news is that
apparently all the structs in the system
headers are wrapped by #pragma pack(8)
(at least all the ones I checked :)
so effectively the default packing IS 8 byte.

>It almost looks like you could just add
>case 8:
>to the switch statement in c-pragma.c
>unless the align wouldn't work.
>
>I'll give it a try.
>


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