Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:44:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Davide Rossi <rossi AT cs DOT unibo DOT it>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: findfirst/next is broken
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Davide Rossi wrote:

> findfirst/next won't work with C++ (simply try with the ff.c test file,
> renaming it ff.cc).
> Is it's really a bug, please fix it soon ;)

The problem is in the C++ compiler that doesn't pack structs, not in 
findfirst/findnext.  Until this bug is corrected in a future version of 
GCC, you can use #pragma pack to work around it.  Or code your functions 
that use finfirst/findnext in C (or call opendir/readdir).