mssip.h trouble

[Ulrich Weigand]

Patrik Stridvall wrote:

> - No GNU C compiler not even 3.1 support #pragma pack(8) nor
>   does it support #pragma pack(16). It doesn't even give a warning.

Well, GCC does support #pragma pack(8) and #pragma pack(16).
They just don't do anything on i386, because they don't need to.

What #pragma pack(N) means is: if any structure member would
require a default alignment > N according to the normal rules,
reduce that alignment to N.

As on i386 no structure member ever requires a default alignment
of > 8, #pragma pack(8) never needs to do anything.

You appear to think that #pragma pack(N) should sometimes
*increase* some alignment requirement -- but it never does.
Under what circumstances do you think it should? 

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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