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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: 30 Oct 2001 17:55:53 -0800
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"Smark" <not.provided@all.com> wrote in message news:<Id5C7.31176$pb4.15277558@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>...
> As you indicated in another post, neither pragma pack nor a rep clause
> gives you what you want.  This is because neither of these will violate
> the alignment rules for a given type. 


This is incorrect (I must say a thread with the above
subject is almost designed to attract a fair number of
incorrect posts, and the expectation is met here, this
is tricky stuff).