Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 03:03:27 +0100 (MET)
From: Davide Rossi <rossi AT cs DOT unibo DOT it>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: findfirst/next is broken
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> 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).
> 
Oh, well... I expected something like this...
Can you please explain me how do you mean with "you can use #pragma pack to
work around it" ?

Ciao,
	Davide.