Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:29:48 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Fulco Bohle <minstrel AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: #pragma pack(8)
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Fulco Bohle wrote:

> To implement OLE under win32 I need to pack structure elements
> on a 8 bytes boundary. djgpp does support pack(0)..pack(4). However I
> get
> a compiler error when I use #pragma pack(8). Does anyone know how to
> tackle this problem ?

Did you try #pragma pack(3)?  I think GCC treats the argument as a power 
of two.  Or maybe I'm daydreaming, but it's worth trying anyway.