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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Q re pack & aliased
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:16:37 +0100
Date: 2003-04-23T00:16:37+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b84igj$64a1k$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ec946d1.0304221451.6365ec93@posting.google.com

"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
news:1ec946d1.0304221451.6365ec93@posting.google.com...

> Pragma Pack and aliased components don't really go together.  Think
> about it: the pragma is there to tell the compiler not to allocate
> array components on "natural" boundaries, which would otherwise be
> addressable.

I agree with this.

> Get rid of the pragma Pack, and use a component size clause: ...

I agree with this.

I believe the correct solution is to drop the 'aliased' and the pragma Pack,
and use pragma Volatile and the appropriate representation clauses (e.g.
size clauses).

--
Nick Roberts
Jabber: debater@charente.de [ICQ: 159718630]






      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-22 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-20  1:08 Q re pack & aliased tmoran
2003-04-20 11:40 ` David Holm
2003-04-21  4:44   ` tmoran
2003-04-22 16:08     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-04-22 16:30       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-22 16:44         ` tmoran
2003-04-22 17:23           ` Stephen Leake
2003-04-22 21:45             ` Robert A Duff
2003-04-22 22:25               ` tmoran
2003-04-22 23:10                 ` Nick Roberts
2003-04-23  0:24                   ` tmoran
2003-04-23  8:07                     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-23 17:18                       ` tmoran
2003-04-23 19:28                         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-23 11:52                     ` Martin Dowie
2003-04-25 16:06                     ` Nick Roberts
2003-04-25 16:38                       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-22 22:51           ` Matthew Heaney
2003-04-22 23:16             ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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