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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:21:54 GMT
Date: 2001-10-29T02:21:54+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <633D7.83856$gT6.43463123@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ff447f2.0110281701.45e0040c@posting.google.com

>Is having, "for Rx_Header_Data'size use 8*11;" better than pragma
>pack? What is the rational?
  What I want is an 11 byte record.  What a future maintainer might
need to know is that it's an 11 byte record.  Perhaps "pragma pack"
is a way to accomplish that, and perhaps it will be obvious to a
future maintainer that such a record, when packed, is 11 bytes long,
but it would take mental energy, and be susceptible to error, to be sure.
If I didn't care about the layout, but just wanted to minimize storage,
then using "pragma pack" would be easier.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-29  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10  8:05 Size and pack Adrian Hoe
2001-10-10  8:59 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-10  9:50   ` John McCabe
2001-10-11  6:36     ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-11  8:55       ` John McCabe
2001-10-31  1:53         ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  1:50     ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  9:17       ` John McCabe
2001-10-31 11:58       ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-01  1:58         ` Adrian Hoe
2001-11-01  2:34           ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-01 14:58             ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-01  3:53           ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-01 18:37             ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-02  3:39               ` Robert Dewar
2001-11-01  3:45         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-01  6:00         ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-10  9:24 ` Pi
2001-10-10  9:27 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11  6:24   ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-11  8:58     ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 13:20       ` Mark Johnson
2001-10-11 16:23         ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 16:00           ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-12  8:37             ` John McCabe
2001-10-28  1:30         ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-11  9:30     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 10:12 ` Vincent Smeets
2001-10-11 10:19   ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 11:18     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-10-11 12:06       ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 13:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-26  4:00 ` Smark
2001-10-26  6:14   ` tmoran
2001-10-26 17:51     ` Smark
2001-10-26 23:21       ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-26 23:39       ` tmoran
2001-10-29  1:01         ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-29  2:21           ` tmoran [this message]
2001-10-29 10:42             ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-29 23:15               ` tmoran
2001-10-29  9:52         ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-29 10:29           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 10:50             ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-29 11:12               ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-31  2:02                 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  2:00               ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  2:51                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-31  1:59           ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  1:57       ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31  1:55   ` Robert Dewar
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