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From: terra AT diku DOT dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: #PRAGMA's .... ahhhh!
Date: 4 Dec 1995 14:41:22 GMT
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jan AT stack DOT urc DOT tue DOT nl (Jan Oonk) writes:

>Ok ok ... I have this cool portable c-source which is VERY big and it
>contains #pragma pack(1) and #pragma pack(). This is because of the
>'hardware' structs. I read the info stuff of DJGPP and it said that it's
>generally a bad idea to use #pragma but as I said it isn't my source :)
>I know I can edit the HUGE source to add to the hardware structs the
>__attribute__ ((packed)) but I don't have 1 year to edit :)

>Anyone know how to solve this?


Get gcc 2.7.1.  It has an option for this.  You might have to
compile it yourself, though.

Morten