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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
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On 30 Oct 2001 17:50:14 -0800, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3bc41989.4285341@news.demon.co.uk>...
>> 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 
>
>No, that's pointless, if you use a complete rep clause, then it is
>redundant to use pragma Pack since it won't have
>any effect.

Interesting you should say that, because it conflicts with your
opinion from a previous, very similar comment I made some time ago! It
would appear your technical opinions change with the weather!