From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: 29 Oct 2001 02:42:32 -0800
Date: 2001-10-29T10:42:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0110290242.3a588edf@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 633D7.83856$gT6.43463123@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com
tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<633D7.83856$gT6.43463123@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.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.
OK. That's make the code more readable and maintainable.
Is "pragma pack" equivalent to "pragma optime (space)"?
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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
2001-10-29 10:42 ` Adrian Hoe [this message]
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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