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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: 30 Oct 2001 17:50:14 -0800
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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.