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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Import a type from C
Date: 08 Nov 2002 09:51:28 -0500
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> writes:
> 
> > ...only the crude pack pragma / command line option ...
> 
> What's the "pack pragma".  Is this standard C, or something supported by
> some C compilers?  (Which compilers?)

gcc supports "__attribute__ ((packed))". It applies to structs, or
fields within structs (not arrays).

I'm on a flight project that has a lot of inherited C code, and some
new Ada code (all by me). The previous project used -fpacked command
line flag for all the C code. But we are also switching operating
systems, and the new one can't tolerate -fpacked. So we have to add
__attribute__ ((packed)) all over the place. But some people want to
run unit tests using Microsoft Visual C (why, I'm not sure :). So we
use a #define to get rid of the __attribute__.

I keep saying "see how much easier this is in Ada". Some of them are
beginning to hear it :).

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-- Stephe