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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
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>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.