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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:50:42 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:59:30 +0200, Alfred Hilscher
<Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> wrote:

Sorry I missed the original post but...

>> Why this happens? Can I use representation clause instead of pragma
>> pack? If both methods work, which is the best approach and why?

Your best bet would be to use as many representation attributes as are
necessary. In general I would use both a representation clause and
pragma pack on an item such as this, and possibly an alignment clause,
to guarantee as much as possible that the record layout in memory is
the way that you want it.